Fiona O'Donnell
{{Short description|Scottish Politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Fiona O'Donnell
| honorific-suffix =
| image = FionaODonnellMPPortrait.jpg
| caption = O'Donnell in 2010
| office = Member of East Lothian Council
for Preston, Seton and Gosford
| term_start = 4 May 2017
| term_end = 6 May 2022
| office1 = Shadow Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries
| leader1 = Ed Miliband
| predecessor1 = Jamie Reed
| successor1 = Tom Harris
| term_start1 = 7 October 2011
| term_end1 = 30 June 2012
| office2 = Member of Parliament
for East Lothian
| parliament2 =
| majority2 =
| predecessor2 = Anne Moffat
| successor2 = George Kerevan
| term_start2 = 6 May 2010
| term_end2 = 30 March 2015
| birthname = Fiona Kenny
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|01|27|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
| nationality = Scottish
| party = Scottish Labour
| education = Lochaber High School
| alma_mater = University of Glasgow
}}
Fiona O'Donnell (née Kenny; born 27 January 1960) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Lothian from 2010 to 2015.
She served as the Shadow Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries from 2011 to 2012, and was elected as a Member of East Lothian Council in 2017.
Early life
Born in Nanaimo, British Columbia but raised in Fort William, Scotland since the age of five,{{cite web|title=Who's Who|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U251196/|website=ukwhoswho.com}} O'Donnell was educated at Lochaber High School and the University of Glasgow.
Political career
At the 2010 general election, O'Donnell succeeded Anne Moffat, who was deselected by the constituency party in January,BBC, 6 April 2010, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8604284.stm Labour selects East Lothian election candidate] as the MP for East Lothian with a majority of over 12,000.{{cite web|title=Fiona O'Donnell|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/fiona-o'donnell/3964|accessdate=28 March 2015|website=UK Parliament}}{{cite web|title=Fiona O'Donnell MP official website with biography|url=http://www.fionaodonnellmp.org/biography/|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402173411/http://www.fionaodonnellmp.org/biography/|archivedate=2 April 2015}}
She briefly served on Ed Miliband's front bench as the Shadow Minister for the Natural Environment and Fisheries from October 2011 to June 2012.{{Cite web|title=Fiona O’Donnell {{!}} HuffPost|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/fiona-odonnell-315|access-date=2021-04-06|website=HuffPost|language=en}}
O'Donnell sat on various parliamentary select committees, including the International Development Committee, the Standards and Privileges Committee, the Committees on Arms Export Controls and the Scottish Affairs Select Committee.
In the final week of the 2010-15 Parliament, she introduced a proposed Bill on improving tax transparency under the Ten Minute Rule.{{cite web|title=Tax Transparency and International Development Bill 2014-15|url=http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2014-15/taxtransparencyandinternationaldevelopment.html|website=Parliament UK|accessdate=28 March 2015}}
O'Donnell lost her seat at the 2015 general election with a swing of over 20% to the Scottish National Party candidate George Kerevan.
She contested the seat of Galloway and West Dumfries at the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, but finished in third-place behind the Scottish Conservative and Scottish National Party candidates.
O'Donnell was selected as a Labour candidate for Preston, Seton and Gosford on East Lothian Council in November 2016, and won the seat at the May 2017 local elections.{{cite web|title=Former county MP bidding to become an East Lothian councillor|url=http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/14842442.Former_county_MP_bidding_to_become_an_East_Lothian_councillor/?ref=mrb&lp=17|accessdate=28 November 2016|website=East Lothian Courier}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.fionaodonnellmp.org/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231080535/http://www.fionaodonnellmp.org/ |date=31 December 2010 }}
- {{UK MP links | parliament = fiona-o'donnell/3964 | publicwhip = fiona_o'donnell | theywork = fiona_o'donnell}}
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Category:Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Category:Female members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
Category:People educated at Lochaber High School
Category:People from Fort William, Highland
Category:21st-century Scottish women politicians
Category:21st-century Scottish politicians
Category:Scottish Labour councillors