Maureen Watt
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Maureen Watt, born in Aberdeenshire, is a Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland.
She was sworn in on April 19, 2006 to replace Richard Lochhead who had resigned his seat to contest the Moray by-election. The next person on the SNP list from the 2003 election had been Alasdair Allan but he refused his place in Parliament as he had secured the SNP nomination for the Western Isles for the 2007 election. The next person on the list was Maureen Watt, who took up the place. She became the first MSP to swear their oath of allegiance in Doric.
Watt is the daughter of former 1970s SNP MP Hamish Watt.
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