Collette Stevenson | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MSP |
Office: | Member of the Scottish Parliament for East Kilbride |
Majority: | 8,672 (14.1%) |
Term Start: | 8 May 2021 |
Predecessor: | Linda Fabiani |
Office2: | Councillor, South Lanarkshire Council |
Term Start2: | 5 May 2017 |
Term End2: | 4 May 2022 |
Constituency2: | East Kilbride Central South |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Birth Place: | East Kilbride, Scotland |
Birthname: | Collette McDade |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Party: | Scottish National Party |
Alma Mater: | University of the West of Scotland |
Occupation: | Administrator |
Collette Stevenson (née McDade, born 1969) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She has served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for East Kilbride since May 2021.[2]
She served as a local councillor for South Lanarkshire's East Kilbride Central South ward from 2017 and was depute provost at the time of her election as an MSP;[3] [4] she stood down as a councillor ahead of the 2022 local elections.
Stevenson was raised in East Kilbride, where she lives with her family. A graduate in business from the University of the West of Scotland, she was employed in administrative roles at the local authority. She was a founding member of the East Kilbride branch of Women for Independence.[5]