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Roderick Campbell

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Roderick Campbell
Member of the Scottish Parliament
for North East Fife
Assumed office
5 May 2011
Preceded byIain Smith
Majority2,592 (8.7%)
Personal details
Born (1953-06-15) 15 June 1953 (age 71)
Edinburgh
NationalityBritish
Political partyScottish National Party
Alma materExeter University
OccupationSolicitor

Roderick Campbell (born 15 June 1953, Edinburgh) is SNP MSP for North East Fife, elected in 2011.

Campbell was educated at Reading School and graduated BA (Hons) in politics from Exeter University. He received a LL.M in human rights law from the University of Strathclyde.

Campbell first qualified as a solicitor, in both England and Wales and Scotland, and rose to become partner in a multinational firm of lawyers based in London. In 2008 he was called to the bar in Scotland. He is a practising member of the Faculty of Advocates.

Campbell joined the SNP in 1995.

Campbell stood for the North Ease Fife constituency in the 2005 and 2010 Westminster elections, although he was not successful and Menzies Campbell remained the MP. He also stood unsuccessfully in the Scottish Parliament elections of 2007, where Iain Smith successfully held his seat.

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