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Dorothy Grace-Elder is a journalist and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament.
Noted for her campaigning abilities, she was elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 as a Scottish National Party (SNP) representative for Glasgow. A lef-winger, she supported Alex Neil in the SNP leadership election of 2000. She became disatisfied with the way in which the SNP was being run and in 2002 she quit the SNP serving until 2003 as an independent MSP.
She returned to journalism after her tenure as a MSP.
She is also a former Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association candidate for the post of rector of the University of Glasgow, losing to Richard Wilson in 1996.
