Jenni Minto

{{Short description|Scottish Public Health & Women's Health Minister}}

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| name = Jenni Minto

| honorific-suffix = MSP

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| office = Minister for Public Health and Women's Health

| term_start = 29 March 2023

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| predecessor = Maree Todd

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| office1 = Member of the Scottish Parliament
for Argyll and Bute

| termstart1 = 7 May 2021

| predecessor1 = Michael Russell

| majority1 = 8,963 (26.7%)

| firstminister = Humza Yousaf
John Swinney

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1968|11}}[https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/XbW_6fHXSQ9pBsvSNYtorv3tYJY/appointments Companies House], Companies House c

| birth_place = Elgin, Scotland{{cite news|url=https://www.obantimes.co.uk/2020/11/19/snp-reveals-argyll-and-bute-candidate-for-holyrood-poll/|title=SNP reveals Argyll and Bute candidate for Holyrood poll|last=Butcher|first=Ellis|work=Oban Times|date=24 November 2020}}

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Jennifer Margot Minto (born 1968) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Argyll and Bute since 2021.{{Cite news|title=Argyll and Bute – Scottish Parliament constituency|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2021/scotland/constituencies/S16000083|access-date=2021-05-07}} She has been serving as Minister for Public Health and Women's Health since March 2023.{{Cite web |title=Full ministerial team confirmed |url=http://www.gov.scot/news/full-ministerial-team-confirmed/ |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=www.gov.scot |language=en}}

Career

Minto was educated at Madras College in St. Andrews,{{cite news |last=Horne |first=Marc |title=MSPs four times as likely to have been educated at private school |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/msps-four-times-as-likely-to-have-been-educated-at-private-school-nvnh0ck65 |access-date=3 June 2021 |work=The Times |url-access=subscription |date=24 May 2021 |language=en}} and graduated with an MA in accountancy from the University of Aberdeen in 1989.{{Cite web |title=MSP for Argyll & Bute {{!}} Alumni Relations {{!}} The University of Aberdeen |url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/alumni/our-alumni/msp-for-argyll-bute.php |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=www.abdn.ac.uk}} She qualified as a chartered accountant in 1992.

Prior to being elected as an MSP, she worked at accountancy firm KPMG, and in accounts at BBC Scotland in Glasgow. She later settled on the Isle of Islay, with management roles at the Islay Energy Trust and the Museum of Islay Life.

Minto was elected as her party's candidate for the election by local SNP members in November 2020,{{cite news|url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/18881577.jenni-minto-snp-announce-winner-race-michael-russells-holyrood-seat/|title=Jenni Minto: SNP announce winner of race for Michael Russell's Holyrood seat|first=Xander|last=Richards|work=The National|date=18 November 2020|url-access=subscription}} and entered parliament on 8 May 2021.{{Cite web |title=Jenni Minto MSP, Argyll and Bute |url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/msp/26007/jenni_minto |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=TheyWorkForYou |language=en}}

From 17 June 2021 – 1 February 2023, she sat on the Rural Affairs Islands and Natural Environment Committee.{{Cite web |title=Jenni Minto |url=https://www.parliament.scot/home/msps/current-and-previous-msps/jenni-minto |access-date=2023-03-18 |website=www.parliament.scot |language=en}}

As of 2022, she sits on the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee, the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee, and the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee, as well as 15 cross-party groups including the Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Creative Economy and Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Tourism.

In 2023, she was appointed to the Yousaf government as Minister for Public Health and Women's Health.{{Cite web |last=Paton |first=Craig |date=2023-03-29 |title=Yousaf says SNP is ‘united’ as he appoints supporters to his first Cabinet |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-kate-forbes-cabinet-snp-government-b1070901.html |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}