Women for Independence National Committee Members 2015/16
Constitutionally, the Women for Independence National Committee is to be made up of two women from each of the eight Holyrood list areas, plus a top-up of four. This year, because no women had come forward from Central or West regions, it was agreed that two seats would be left vacant to be filled from these regions in the year ahead, and the top-up list increased to six.
In the event, there was a dead heat for the sixth place on the top-up list, so the retiring Committee agreed to have an initial Committee of 19 (rather than 18).
Subsequently by-elections took place to fill the spaces for Central and West.
In alphabetical order, the 23 women on the National Committee are;
Ashten Regan-Denham
Carolyn Leckie
Gillian Martin
Jeane Freeman
Julie Bell
Lesley Orr
Maggie Lennon
Maggie Mellon
Mairi Tulbure
Margaret Young
Marsha Scott
Mary Mackay
Michelle Rodger
Natalie McGarry MP
Rebecca Jones
Rosemary Hunter
Sandra Mills
Selma Rahman
Sheila McCole
Sue Lyons
Suzanne McLaughlin
Victoria Heaney
Zara Kitson