Mary Fee
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Mary Fee MSP |
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Member of the Scottish Parliament for the West Scotland region |
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Assumed office 5 May 2011 |
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| Born | 23 March 1954 |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Political party | Scottish Labour Party |
Mary Christina Fee (born 23 March 1954) is a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the West Scotland region since 2011.
Fee was born in Edinburgh on 23 March 1954. She was educated first at Leith Walk Primary and later at Broughton Secondary, both in Edinburgh.
After leaving education, she entered employment with the Bank of Scotland where she stayed for two years (1972-1974). She then left the company to work for British Telecom, where she remained for over ten years (1974-1984). Having married in 1977, Fee transferred within British Telecom to their Glasgow offices.
In 1990, Fee began working for Tesco in their Renfrew store. She became involved in the trade union, Usdaw, of which she is still a member, and became a shop steward in 1990. Mary was elected onto the Usdaw Executive in 2000 and later became a member of the STUC General Council. Fee served as a member of the Employment Tribunals during this time as resigned from the Tribunals as of February 2011.
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.
For the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, Labour had placed Fee as the candidate at the top of their West Scotland list and she was elected on May 5. She stepped down as a councillor for the Renfrew South and Gallowhill Ward at the 2012 Scottish Local elections. During the fourth Scottish Parliament, Fee had various spokesperson posts for Scottish Labour. Under the leadership of Johann Lamont, Fee was Scottish Labour's Shadow Housing Minister; then under Jim Murphy, 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.
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