12 Facts About Jenny Aitchison

Jennifer Kathleen Aitchison is an Australian politician who has served as Minister for Roads and Minister for Regional Transport in the Minns ministry since 2025.

Jenny Aitchison previously served as Minister for Regional Transport and Roads from 2023 to 2025.

Jenny Aitchison has served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Maitland since the 2015 New South Wales state election.

In 1985, during the first International Year of Youth, Jenny Aitchison was selected to represent her school on an interschool newspaper, which is where she later said was "the start of my activism".

Jenny Aitchison then moved into the Social Justice Coordination Section, responsibilities here included drafting the department's Agenda for Women and consultations around Australia, in addition to hearing firsthand the stories of many refugee and migrant women.

Jenny Aitchison was managing director of tourism company Northern Highland Travel Pty Ltd, where she operated package coach tours across the region.

In 2006, Jenny Aitchison won the BusNSW and the Bus Industry Confederation's National Young Achiever Award and her business was a finalist in the Telstra Business Awards.

In 2005, Jenny Aitchison was awarded the Lower Hunter Business Woman of the Year.

Woods and Ridgway asked Jenny Aitchison to be the Foundation President of the organisation, which she went on to lead for seven years.

Jenny Aitchison retained the portfolio in the Minns government; and, in 2025, she was appointed as Minister for Roads, while retaining the Regional Transport portfolio.

In 1997, Jenny Aitchison met her husband, Robert, and relocated to Walcha, a small town in the New England Tableland.

Jenny Aitchison underwent a double mastectomy and the removal of both ovaries, entering surgical menopause.