Nicola Sturgeon
Receiving the BBC 100 Women award marked a public moment of recognition for Nicola Sturgeon, a politician and lawyer who has spent her career operating at the intersection of law and public life in the United Kingdom. Born on 19 July 1970 in Irvine, she is a UK citizen who has conducted her work in English.
Sturgeon attended Greenwood Academy before going on to study at the University of Glasgow and its School of Law. That legal education underpins her professional identity: she has worked as both a lawyer and a jurist alongside her career as a politician.
As a politician and jurist, Sturgeon has received recognition from more than one direction. In addition to the BBC 100 Women award, she also received the M100 Media Award. Together, the two honours reflect the attention her work has attracted across different contexts and audiences.
Her path from Greenwood Academy to the University of Glasgow School of Law, and from there into careers in both law and politics, forms the factual arc of a life shaped by those two fields. The M100 Media Award stands as a concrete marker in that record, sitting alongside the BBC 100 Women recognition as evidence of the reach her work has had.
Quotes by Nicola Sturgeon
We will never vote for the renewal of Trident; that's a decision which will fall to be made in the next Westminster parliament. We will never vote for that.
It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.
Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
Maybe its time for politicians to fight back a little bit in terms of this notion that politicians are all in it for themselves, we're all the same, we're not driven by sincere motives. Because the fact of the matter is the vast majority are.
I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.
My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel.
Our opposition to Trident is very clear, very firm, very long-standing, very principled, and we would seek to build an alliance to prevent the renewal of Trident.
I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent country. But as long as we're part of the Westminster system, it's really important to people in Scotland that we get good decisions coming out of Westminster. So we've got a vested interest in being a constructive participant.