Jenny Gilruth

Jenny Gilruth
Official portrait, 2023
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
Assumed office
29 March 2023
First MinisterHumza Yousaf
John Swinney
Preceded byShirley-Anne Somerville
Minister for Transport
In office
24 January 2022 – 29 March 2023
First MinisterNicola Sturgeon
Preceded byGraeme Dey
Succeeded byKevin Stewart
Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development
In office
17 February 2020 – 24 January 2022
First MinisterNicola Sturgeon
Preceded byBen Macpherson
Succeeded byNeil Gray
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Mid Fife and Glenrothes
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Preceded byTricia Marwick
Majority10,234 (31.3%)
Personal details
Born
Jennifer Madeleine Gilruth

1984 (age 39–40)
Aberdeen, Scotland
Political partyScottish National Party
Spouse
(m. 2022)
Alma materUniversity of Glasgow
University of Strathclyde
Websitewww.jennygilruthmsp.scot

Jennifer Madeleine Gilruth (born 1984) is a Scottish politician who has served as the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Fife and Glenrothes since 2016.[1]

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Gilruth was elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Fife and Glenrothes constituency. She sat on the SNP's backbenches and served successively in the parliament's education, health, justice and social security committees. On 17 February 2020, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon appointed Gilruth to the Scottish Government as the minister for culture, Europe and international development. She was later reshuffled as the transport minister and oversaw the transition of the public ownership of ScotRail. Following Humza Yousaf's appointment as first minister of Scotland, a campaign Gilruth endorsed, she was subsequently appointed to cabinet as the education secretary.

  1. ^ "Mid Fife and Glenrothes". BBC News. 6 May 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017.