Marlyn Glen

Marlyn Glen MSP
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Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 May 2003
Personal details
Born	(1951-09-30) 30 September 1951 Dundee
Political party	Scottish Labour Party
Alma mater	Open University, University of St Andrews

Marlyn Glen (born 30 September 1951, Dundee) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland region since 2003.

She was educated at Kirkton High School in Dundee, and attended the University of St Andrews and the University of Dundee. She has also completed several Open University degree courses.

Prior to her election to Holyrood she worked as a teacher in Liverpool, Irvine and Dundee and is a member of the Educational Institute of Scotland trade union. She was also a Dundee District Council councillor. Her husband, Neil Glen, was also a councillor and died in 2004.

Glen is on the left of the Scottish Labour Party and remains a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She is also a member of the Scottish Campaign for Socialism that backed John McDonnell's bid for the leadership of the Labour party.

She is also an Honorary Vice President of English-Speaking Union Scotland.

Publications

• Green Shoots - A ReRegions Case Study International Resources and Recycling Institute, April 18, 2007

External links

• Marlyn Glen MSP personal site
• Marlyn Glen MSP official biography at the Scottish Parliament website
• Marlyn Glen MSP profile at the site of Scottish Labour
• Twitter