Dorothy-Grace Elder was later recruited by TV, beginning with BBC Scotland's news programme Reporting Scotland.
11 Facts About Dorothy-Grace Elder
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Dorothy-Grace Elder wrote, filmed and produced numerous documentaries on social injustices for STV and the network.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder worked as features editor and columnist on Scotland's first cooperatively run newspaper, the ill-fated Scottish Daily News.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder campaigned against conditions in Russian prisons for the destitute, including street children.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder was a member of the Health and Community Care Committee and a member of the Public Petitions Committee.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder researched pollution and ill health in the East End of Glasgow, becoming the first MSP to take a pollution case to Brussels against dumping in the East End and an incinerator for dead cattle being allowed near housing and a hospital.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder fought for 12 years for a residential service in Scotland, which was achieved in 2015.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder continues to be strongly involved with the cross-party group, long after her term as MSP finished.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder became dissatisfied with the way in which the SNP was being run and in May 2002 she resigned from the SNP.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder did not stand for re-election at the 2003 election, returning to journalism instead.
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Dorothy-Grace Elder is a former Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association candidate for the post of rector of the University of Glasgow, losing to the actor Richard Wilson in 1996.