Jane Scott

Who is Jane Scott?

Jane Antoinette Scott OBE is an English Conservative politician, Leader of the Wiltshire Council unitary authority since June 2009 and before that of its predecessor, the former Wiltshire County Council, between 2003 to 2009.

After leaving school, Scott trained for a career in agriculture, then worked in the dairy industry, on farms and also in public relations work, marketing and lecturing. She moved to Wiltshire in the early 1990s and in 1995 was elected to North Wiltshire District Council. Two years later, she was elected to Wiltshire County Council, and in 2001 became chairman of its Education Committee, then cabinet member for children, education and libraries, and finally Leader in 2003. In the county council, she represented the Kington electoral division, in the district council Kington St Michael. In the June 2009 first elections to a new Wiltshire Council, which is a unitary authority created by merging the county and its districts, she was elected for a new division called "By Brook". This includes the parishes of Biddestone, Castle Combe, Hullavington, Grittleton, Nettleton, North Wraxall, and Yatton Keynell.