Nanette has spent her whole life in the North East of Scotland.  Her parents owned a sweet shop in Dundee before moving to Aberdeen where she attended Aberdeen High Schools for Girls, then onto Aberdeen University to study medicine.

A Doctor by profession, Nanette has filled various medical and surgical posts in hospitals, as well as undertaking research work in oncology.  Her career has spanned nearly 20 years working for the NHS in Aberdeen hospitals.

Nanette’s service to the North East includes:

	10 years as a Community Councillor
	11 years as a City Councillor
	6 years as a Director of Grampian Enterprise Ltd.
	7 years so far on the Governing Body of Aberdeen University

Nanette has a wide experience within the Scottish Conservative Party at constituency, area and national level as Vice Chairman in the late eighties/ early nineties.

She has been married for over thirty years to Alan, a senior local GP, and has two children who were educated at Cults Academy and then Robert Gordon’s and Aberdeen Universities .