Jenny Gilruth

Jenny Gilruth MSP
Official portrait, 2023
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 March 2023
First Minister	Humza Yousaf John Swinney
Preceded by	Shirley-Anne Somerville
Minister for Transport
In office 24 January 2022 – 29 March 2023
First Minister	Nicola Sturgeon
Preceded by	Graeme Dey
Succeeded by	Kevin Stewart
Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development
In office 17 February 2020 – 24 January 2022
First Minister	Nicola Sturgeon
Preceded by	Ben Macpherson
Succeeded by	Neil Gray
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Mid Fife and Glenrothes
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2016
Preceded by	Tricia Marwick
Majority	10,234 (31.3%)
Personal details
Born	Jennifer Madeleine Gilruth 1984 (age 39–40) Aberdeen, Scotland
Political party	Scottish National Party
Spouse	Kezia Dugdale ​ (m. 2022)​
Alma mater	University of Glasgow University of Strathclyde
Website	www.jennygilruthmsp.scot

Jennifer Madeleine Gilruth (born 1984) is a Scottish politician who has served as the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills since 2023. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Mid Fife and Glenrothes since 2016.^[1]

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Gilruth was elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Fife and Glenrothes constituency. She sat on the SNP's backbenches and served successively in the parliament's education, health, justice and social security committees. On 17 February 2020, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon appointed Gilruth to the Scottish Government as the minister for culture, Europe and international development. She was later reshuffled as the transport minister and oversaw the transition of the public ownership of ScotRail. Following Humza Yousaf's appointment as first minister of Scotland, a campaign Gilruth endorsed, she was subsequently appointed to cabinet as the education secretary.