Marion Fellows

Motherwell & Wishaw

Marion Fellows studied Accountancy and Finance at Heriot Watt University and spent her early career in a variety of related roles in both the public and private sectors. She subsequently taught in further education, spending 19 years teaching business studies at West Lothian College, where she was an active and senior member of the EIS Trade Union.

She has lived with her family in Wishaw and Bellshill for 40 years, and has represented Wishaw as a local SNP councillor since 2012. She was a senior figure in the Yes Motherwell and Wishaw campaign, which won a majority locally in the 2014 Independence Referendum.