Elspeth Attwooll

Elspeth Attwooll (born 1 February 1943) is a retired Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and former academic. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 10 June 1999 to 4 June 2009. She was the first Liberal Democrat MEP elected from Scotland. Attwooll also stood for parliament in Glasgow Maryhill in several general elections as a Liberal and later a Liberal Democrat. Before her political career, she taught jurisprudence and legal theory at the University of Glasgow, where she was a senior lecturer. In the European Parliament, she served on the Fisheries and Regional Development Committees and was known for her work on whaling regulations and the Common Fisheries Policy.