representative on the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body
What was the position of Tricia Marwick from May 2007 to Mar 2011?
Tricia Marwick Patricia Marwick ( née Lee ; born 5 November 1953 ) , commonly known as Tricia Marwick , is a Scottish politician who served as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament from 2011 to 2016 . She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) from 1999 to 2016 , initially elected for the Mid Scotland and Fife region and then for the Mid Fife and Glenrothes , formerly Central Fife , constituency after 2007 . Elected as a member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) , she suspended her membership in 2011 upon her election as presiding officer , following the tradition of the presiding officer being nonpartisan . Background . Marwick was born Patricia Lee on 5 November 1953 in Cowdenbeath and was brought up in Fife , one of seven siblings . She worked as Public Affairs Officer for Shelter Scotland , a charity for homeless people , from 1992 to 1999 . Member of the Scottish Parliament . At the 1999 Scottish Parliamentary election , Marwick was elected as a member for the Mid Scotland and Fife region . She served on the SNP opposition frontbench team as Deputy Business Manager 1999–2000 , Shadow Minister for Local Government 2004 , Business Manager and Chief Whip 2004–2005 and Shadow Minister for Housing 2005–2007 . Marwick has also served as a member of the Scottish Parliament’s Standards , Justice and Home Affairs , Equal Opportunities , Local Government and Communities committees and as convenor of the Waverly Railway ( Scotland ) Bill committee from 2004–2006 . At the 2003 Scottish Parliamentary election she contested the Central Fife seat and , although she narrowly failed to win the seat , she was re-elected to serve as a member for Mid Scotland and Fife . Marwick contested Central Fife again in 2007 and was elected as the constituencies MSP after defeating the Labour incumbent , Christine May , with a majority of 1,166 votes . Following the 2007 election Marwick was appointed as the SNPs representative on the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body , and oversaw parliamentary access and information issues . Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament . In the 2011 election , Marwick was elected for the Mid Fife and Glenrothes constituency , essentially a redrawing of her old Central Fife seat . On 11 May 2011 , when Parliament reconvened , Marwick was elected to serve as the 4th Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament , having won support from the majority of members in the second round of voting . She became the first woman and second SNP member to serve in the position . In October 2012 , Marwick accepted a nomination to join the Privy Council , meaning that she is styled the Rt Hon . Tricia Marwick MSP . On 29 May 2015 , it was announced that Marwick would stand down as Presiding Officer at the 2016 election . She also left elected politics as a whole . Upon standing down , she was made an offer to have her name put forward for an honour from the Queen but turned the offer down . After Parliament . Marwick was announced as the new chair for the NHS Fife board in November 2016 , replacing Allan Burns who resigned from the post in August 2016 . Her appointment as chair ran from 1 January 2017 until 31 December 2020 . In 2021 Marwick tweeted journalist Fraser Nelson , who had published articles critical of the Scottish Government , that , We see you Fraser . We see what you are trying to do . Have never seen you challenge Westminster Governments . Scottish birth not alone does a Scotsman make , sometimes it signifies a Scotsman on the make . Nelson replied , “While raised in the Highlands I guess I was never quite properly Scottish . How could you tell?” The Scottish Conservatives said Marwick should clearly have known better than to pander to the most extreme wing of her party and she deleted the tweet . Personal life . Marwicks niece is Natalie McGarry , the former MP for Glasgow East .