Nanette Milne MSP
Nanette has spent all her life in the Aberdeen area, and is a well-known face around the northeast.
She was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls, and qualified as a doctor at Aberdeen University in 1965. She trained initially in Anaesthetics, gaining her fellowship in 1969. She took a few years out in the early ‘70’s to bring up her two young children, and thereafter worked part-time in cancer related research.
She joined the Conservative Party in 1974, moving from grass roots activist and branch committee member to constituency chairman and president, and then was vice-chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party from 1989-1993. She contested the Aberdeen South seat in the 1999 Scottish Parliamentary election, and the Gordon seat for Westminster in 2001 and for Holyrood in 2003, when she came second to the Liberal-Democrats, increasing the Conservatives’ share of the vote. She is currently one of two Conservative list members of the Scottish Parliament for North East Scotland,
From 1988-1999 she was the Aberdeen City Councillor for Cults ward. She sat on the Planning Committee for 8 years, during which time she developed an interest in environmental issues, and became a founder trustee of the Aberdeen Countryside Project. She got involved in the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, and is still an enthusiastic trustee and “Friend” of the festival.
She also became a trustee of the Aberdeen-Gomel Trust, formed after the Chernobyl disaster, and is still an active member of the Friends of Gomel.
She is a governor of Aberdeen University, and she is spearheading the formation of an informal Alumnus Group of Aberdeen graduates who work within the Scottish Parliament.
Spare time is scarce these days, but Nanette loves to spend time at home in Aberdeen, gardening, cooking and entertaining her grandchildren and friends, or walking the glens and golfing in her beloved Braemar area. She likes when possible to spend a week each winter skiing in the French Alps, usually in the Haute Savoie around Val d’Isere and Tignes, enjoying the food and wine as well as the excellent snow.
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