Graeme Pearson

Graeme Pearson


Member of the Scottish Parliament for South of Scotland
In office 5 May 2011 – 23 March 2016
Personal details
Born	(1950-04-01) 1 April 1950
Nationality	Scottish
Political party	Scottish Labour Party
Occupation	Member of the Scottish Parliament
Profession	Police Officer, Politician

Graeme Pearson (born 1 April 1950) is a Labour politician and was Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland region from 2011 to 2016.^[1] He is a former police officer and Director General of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.

He was appointed to the position of Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Justice in the Scottish Labour frontbench team by Johann Lamont in May 2013. ^[2]

References

Scottish Labour Party

Headquarters: Transport House, 290 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4RE

Leaders

Donald Dewar (1999–2000)
Henry McLeish (2000–2001)
Jack McConnell (2001–2007)
Wendy Alexander (2007–2008)
Iain Gray (2008–2011)
Johann Lamont (2011–2014)
Jim Murphy (2014–2015)
Kezia Dugdale (2015–)

Deputy Leaders

Henry McLeish (1999–2000)
Cathy Jamieson (2000–2008)
Johann Lamont (2008–2011)
Anas Sarwar (2011–2014)
Kezia Dugdale (2014–2015)
Alex Rowley (2015–)

General Secretaries

Ben Shaw (1914–1931)
Arthur Woodburn (1932–1939)
John Taylor (1939–1951)
Willie Marshall (1951–1977)
Helen Liddell (1977–1988)
Murray Elder (1988–1992)
Jack McConnell (1992–1998)
Alex Rowley (1998–1999)
Lesley Quinn (1999–2008)
Colin Smyth (2008–2013)
Ian Price (2013–2014)
Brian Roy (2014–)

MSP Group

Shadow Cabinet	Kezia Dugdale (Leader) Alex Rowley (Deputy Leader) Jackie Baillie (Public Services and Wealth Creation) Mary Fee (Reform) Iain Gray (Opportunity) Jenny Marra (Equality) Ken Macintosh (Community) Graeme Pearson (Justice) Sarah Boyack (Environmental Justice) Claire Baker (Democracy) James Kelly (Parliamentary Business) Neil Bibby (Chief Whip)

Shadow Ministers	Lewis Macdonald (Public Services and Wealth Creation) Siobhan McMahon (Public Services and Wealth Creation) Richard Simpson (Public Services and Wealth Creation) Mark Griffin (Opportunity) John Pentland (Opportunity) Neil Findlay (Equality) Rhoda Grant (Equality) Drew Smith (Equality) Jayne Baxter (Community and deputy whip) Michael McMahon (Community) Elaine Murray (Justice) Claudia Beamish (Environmental Justice) David Stewart (Environmental Justice) Anne McTaggart (Democracy)

Backbenchers	Lesley Brennan Malcolm Chisholm Patricia Ferguson Hugh Henry Cara Hilton Johann Lamont Hanzala Malik Paul Martin Margaret McCulloch Margaret McDougall (deputy whip) Duncan McNeil Elaine Smith

MP Group

UK Shadow Cabinet	Ian Murray (Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland)

MEP Group

David Martin
Catherine Stihler

Organisation

Scottish Executive Committee
Scottish Labour Conference
Scottish Policy Forum
Scottish Trade Union Labour Party Committee
Scottish Labour Students
Scottish Young Labour
Campaign for Socialism Group
Review of the Labour Party in Scotland
History

In Government

First
Second

Members of the Scottish Parliament in the South Scotland region

Elected in the 2016 election

Constituency MSPs	John Scott (Con, Ayr) Jeane Freeman (SNP, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) Aileen Campbell (SNP, Clydesdale) Oliver Mundell (Con, Dumfriesshire) Iain Gray (Lab, East Lothian) John Lamont (Con, Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) Finlay Carson (Con, Galloway and West Dumfries) Willie Coffey (SNP, Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) Christine Grahame (SNP, Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale)

Additional members	Claudia Beamish (Lab} Rachael Hamilton (Con) Emma Harper (SNP) Joan McAlpine (SNP) Colin Smyth (Lab) Paul Wheelhouse (SNP) Brian Whittle (Con)

SNP (7 seats), Conservative (6 seats), Labour (3 seats)

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