Jeane Tennent Freeman OBE MSP is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She has been the Minister for Social Security in Scotland since May 2016, having been elected as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley at the 2016 Scottish Parliament election.Freeman was born in Ayr, the daughter of an aircraft fitter and a nurse. She was raised in South Ayrshire. Freeman attended the Glasgow College of Technology and studied sociology and politics.Freeman was a leading member of the Communist Party's student wing and in 1979 she became the first woman to chair the National Union of Students Scotland. In 1983 Freeman was a member of the Communist party's Congress Arrangements Committee which oversaw the running of that years party congress. Wikipedia