Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician serving as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party since 2014. She is the first woman to hold either position.
She is the eldest of three children born to her parents Robin Sturgeon her father, and Joan Kerr Ferguson her mother. She was born on the 19th of July 1970 in Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine, United Kingdom. She is 51 years old.
Her father is an electrician he was born in 1948, and her mother is a dental nurse born in 1952. Her paternal grandmother was from Ryhope in what is now the City of Sunderland. She grew up in Prestwick and Dreghorn. Her two siblings are Gillian Sturgeon her other sibling is unknown.
Nicola Sturgeon wedding photos: A look at her marriage to SNP chief executive Peter Murrell
Nicola Sturgeon is married to Peter Murrell, 56 years old. Who is the chief executive of the Scottish National Party Murrell has been CEO of the SNP since 1999?
They met when Sturgeon was 18 at a Young Scottish Nationalists gathering in Aberdeenshire. Here are some of the wedding photos
Nicola Sturgeon shares a cute wedding throwback pic on the tenth anniversary with hubby Peter Murrell
She attended Dreghorn Primary School from 1975 to 1982 and Greenwood Academy from 1982 to 1988. She later studied law at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws Hons in 1992 and a Diploma in Legal Practice the following year. During her time at the University of Glasgow, she was active as a member of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association and the Glasgow University Students’ Representative Council.
Sturgeon completed her legal traineeship at McClure Naismith, a Glasgow firm of solicitors, in 1995. After qualifying as a solicitor, she worked for Bell & Craig, a firm of solicitors in Stirling, and later at the Drumchapel Law Centre in Glasgow from 1997 until her election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
