Jacqueline McLaren (born c.1965) is a Scottish National Party councillor in Glasgow. She became the Lord Provost of Glasgow in 2022.
Life McLaren was born in about 1965 and was brought up in the Maryhill area of Glasgow. Some of her early work was for Boots the Chemist.
She became a politician after she was a leading figure in a campaign to save school buses in 2015.
McLaren became the Lord Provost of Glasgow in 2022, succeeding Philip Braat. The position dates from 1450 and she also became Lord Lieutenant and Glasgow's First Citizen. There are four Lord Provosts in Scotland but she is the only woman. She has an official residence, where she replaced the artwork to reflect that she is an ordinary woman. Glasgow and Edinburgh's Lord Provosts serve as co-presidents of the Scotland Malawi Partnership and she continued this tradition.
HMS Glasgow was christened on 22 May 2025 at BAE Scotstoun by Catherine, Princess of Wales. McLaren attended together with William, Prince of Wales, Second Sea Lord, Vice Admiral Sir Martin Connell, the managing director of BAE Systems Maritime – Naval Ships, Simon Lister.
Personal life She and her partner, Ian McCarthy, have a son who trained to be a doctor.
Awards The University of Strathclyde awarded her an honorary degree.
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