Christine Grahame
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Christine Grahame (born September 9, 1944) is a Scottish politician. Born in England but brought up in Edinburgh, she joined the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 1970. She was elected to the Scottish Parliament to represent the South of Scotland region at the 1999 election and re-elected in 2003.
In 2004 she ran as a candidate for Deputy Leader of the SNP after the resignation of Leader John Swinney propelled Deputy Leader Roseanna Cunningham into the contest to replace him. Grahame came second, between Nicola Sturgeon, the winner, and Fergus Ewing.
After the election she was reshuffled from being chair of the Scottish Parliament's Health committee to being its Shadow Minister for Social Justice, generally seen by media commentators as an upwards shift. In June 2005 she was elected Honorary President of the Federation of Student Nationalists.
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