The Ayrshire First Minister

Nicola Sturgeon is a Scottish politician and is the First Minister of Scotland. She was born in Irvine, a town in North Ayrshire in 1970.

She grew up in Dreghorn, a small village next to Irvine with her parents and sister.

Her father worked as an electrician and her mother was a dental nurse. Both Nicola and her sister went to Greenwood academy.

Nicola studied very hard at school. After she finished school, she went to Glasgow university to study law. After university, Nicola worked as a lawyer. She only did this job for three years then decided to become a politician. She was elected to the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh in 1999.

She is in the SNP party because she wants Scotland to leave the UK. She became leader of the SNP and First Minister in 2014.

She is a very busy woman but she likes to read books when she has free time.