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Lesley Hinds is a Scottish politician who served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh Pentlands from 1999 to 2011. She was born on 3 August 1956 in Dundee, Scotland. Hinds was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where she studied law. She worked as a solicitor in Edinburgh before entering politics. Hinds was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, representing the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency. She served as Minister for Transport in the Scottish Executive from 2001 to 2007. She was also the Minister for Environment and Rural Development from 2007 to 2011. Hinds was a member of the Scottish Labour Party until 2011, when she left the party to become an independent MSP. She did not stand for re-election in 2011. Hinds is currently the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, a position she has held since 2012. She is also a member of the Scottish Government's Advisory Council on Women and Girls. Hinds is married to John Hinds, a former Labour MSP. They have two children.

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Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 3 August 1956
Birthday 3 August
Birthplace Dundee, Scotland
Nationality Scottish

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Her husband is Martin Hinds (m.1977)

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Children one daughter, one son

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2016

In 2016 Councillor Hinds announced that she was stepping down from politics and did not contest the Labour Seat of Edinburgh North and Leith, or stand in the 2017 local elections.

2012

Hinds was the convener of Edinburgh Council's Transport and Environment Committee from 2012–2017.

2003

Lesley Hinds is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland from 2003 to 2007.

She was elected the Lord Provost of Edinburgh on 8 May 2003, succeeding Eric Milligan, however following elections on 3 May 2007, the Labour Party lost overall control of the City of Edinburgh and was succeeded in the office of Lord Provost by Liberal Democrat George Grubb.

1997

Hinds fought the Edinburgh West seat at the 1997 general election, placing third. At the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections she stood as Labour's candidate in the Edinburgh Western constituency. The seat was won by Colin Keir of the SNP. Hinds came third behind Keir and the Liberal Democrats' Margaret Smith, who had held the seat since 1999.

1984

She was first elected to Edinburgh District Council as a member of the Scottish Labour Party to represent the Telford ward in 1984, later becoming leader of the district council. In 1996 she was elected to represent the Muirhouse and Drylaw ward in the new City of Edinburgh unitary authority. Following the local elections in May 2007 she was one of four councillors representing the new Inverleith ward.

1977

In 1977 she married Martin Hinds. Together they have a daughter and a son.

1956

Hinds was born on the 3 August 1956 in Dundee, Scotland to Kenneth and Ena Nicol. She attended Kirkton High School in Dundee and studied at Dundee College of Education. She was a teacher at Deans Primary Schools in West Lothian from 1977–80.