Jenny Marra

Jenny Marra ( born November 6, 1977 in Dundee) is a Scottish politician and member of the Labour Party.

Life

Marra attended St. John's High School in Dundee and then went to the University of St Andrews, which she left as a master in history. After a year at Emory University in Atlanta, she worked in the fields of press and publicity for the University of Dundee. Marra then studied law at Glasgow University and earned a law degree in London. Your admission as a lawyer, she received from the University of Dundee. She is a member of the GMB Union and Amnesty International

Political career

Between 2005 and 2006, Marra was the speaker of the Labour MEPs. For the first time Marra joined the Scottish Parliament elections in 2011 to be national elections. They do not applied, this is the direct mandate of a constituency, but ran on the Regional Evaluation of the Labour Party for choosing North East Scotland. As a result of the election result, she was the only Labour candidate a list of mandate in this region and moved for the first time in the Scottish Parliament.