13 Facts About Mary Fee

Mary Christina Fee was born on 23 March 1954 and is a Scottish politician who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the West Scotland region from 2011 to 2021.

Mary Fee was educated first at Leith Walk Primary and later at Broughton Secondary, both in Edinburgh.

Mary Fee then left the company to work for British Telecom, where she remained for over ten years.

In 1990, Mary Fee began working for Tesco in their Renfrew store.

Mary Fee became involved in the trade union, Usdaw, of which she is still a member, and became a shop steward in 1990.

Mary Fee was elected onto the Usdaw Executive in 2000 and later became a member of the STUC General Council.

Mary Fee served as a member of the Employment Tribunals during this time as resigned from the Tribunals as of February 2011.

Mary Fee was elected to Renfrewshire Council in the 2007 Scottish local elections, having been elected on first preference votes in the first round to the Renfrew South and Gallowhill Ward of Renfrewshire council.

Under the leadership of Johann Lamont, Mary Fee was Scottish Labour's Shadow Housing Minister; then under Jim Murphy, Mary Fee was promoted to the position of, Spokesperson for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities before later taking on the position of Spokesperson for Reform, after Kezia Dugdale was elected as the party's new leader in August 2015.

At the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Mary Fee stood for the Renfrewshire North and West constituency where she was placed third, although she was again returned to the Scottish Parliament on Labour's West of Scotland list.

Mary Fee is a substitute member of the Public Petitions Committee.

Mary Fee established the Cross-Party Group on Families Affected by Imprisonment and was the Convener for this group.

Mary Fee nominated Anas Sarwar in the 2021 Scottish Labour leadership election.