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| 2024 |
| Honoured Guest: HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh |
| Hayley Millar, Guest Chair |
| Dr Kirsty Munro |
| Dr Marie Macklin |
| Prof. Andrea Nolan |
| 2023 |
| Hayley Millar, Guest Chair |
| Jane Garvey |
| Katharine Ford |
| Prof. Helen Cross |
| 2022 |
| Hayley Millar, Guest Chair |
| Linda Bauld |
| Dame Susan Rice |
| Genevieve Edwards |
| 2019 |
| Fiona Stalker, Guest Chair |
| Sarah Brown |
| Dr Catherine Calderwood |
| Amal Azzudin |
| 2018 |
| Isabel Fraser, Guest Chair |
| Laura Boyd |
| Jackie Kay, Makar |
| The Calendar Girls – Angela Knowles, Tricia Stewart and Christine Clancy |
| 2017 |
| Viv Lumsden Guest Chair |
| Diane Goldberg |
| Prof Dame Sue Black |
| Rt Hon Ruth Davidson MSP |
| 2016 |
| Viv Lumsden Guest Chair |
| Dr Susan Shenkin |
| Linda Urquart OBE |
| Elaine C. Smith |
| 2015 |
| Viv Lumsden Guest Chair |
| Lorna Marson |
| Louise Macdonald |
| Dame Jacqueline Wilson |
| 2014 |
| Viv Lumsden Guest Chair |
| Rt. Reverend Lorna Hood |
| Val McDermid |
| Alison Johnstone MSP |
| 2013 |
| Viv Lumsden Guest Chair |
| Professor Louise Richardson |
| Maggie McEleny MBE replaced by speaker for SIS |
| Jo Swinson MP |
| 2012 |
| Shereen Nanjiani, Guest chair |
| Candia McWilliam |
| Christina McKelvie MSP |
| Professor Anne Glover |
| 2011 |
| Viscountess Younger of Leckie- Jenny Younger – finance |
| Dame Stella Rimington – sadly had to withdraw but was replaced by Kate Adie |
| Vicky Featherstone |
| Professor Fiona Gilbert |
| 2010 |
| Fiona Armstrong – Presenter |
| Lt Col Lynn Adam – dropped out due to election |
| Chief Constable Norma Graham – Police |
| Lesley Riddoch – journalist |
| 2009 |
| Sheena McDonald – Broadcaster |
| Annabel Goldie MSP |
| Barbara Hudson – Scottish Director of the Association for Fostering and Adoption |
| Liz Lochhead – poet and writer |
| 2008 |
| Linda Fabiani MSP (Minister Europe, External Affairs & Culture) |
| Dr. Sally Beamish (Composer) |
| Laura Kuennsberg (BBC Political correspondent) |
| 2007 |
| Hannah Gordon (Guest Chair) |
| Shonaig Macpherson (Chairman NTS), |
| Barbara Dickson |
| Maggie Cunningham |
| Donalda McKinnon (Head of BBC Scotland) |
| 2006 |
| Kaye Adams Guest Chair |
| Dr. Mona Siddiqui (Head of Theology & Religious studies), |
| Muriel Gray |
| Kathleen Marshall (Commissioner for Children) |
| 2005 |
| Bridget McConnell, (Guest Chair) |
| Anne Richards (Chief Investment Officer Aberdeen Asset Management) |
| Mary Contini (cookery expert – Valvona & Crolla), |
| Sheila McLean (Professor of Law & Ethics in Medicine) |
| 2004 |
| Sally Magnusson, (Guest Chair) |
| Elish Angiolini (Solicitor General) |
| Belinda Robertson (cashmere designer) |
| Margaret Barr (Asst. Chief Constable) |
| 2003 |
| Sally McNair (broadcaster), (Guest Chair) |
| Baroness Helena Kennedy |
| Chris Clyne (fashion designer) |
| Hilary Mackenzie (war journalist) |
| 2002 |
| Kirsty Wark, (Guest Chair) |
| Baroness Linklater |
| Audrey Park (prison governor) |
| Colette Douglas Home |
| 2001 |
| Joanna Service (Guest Chair) |
| Frances Cairncross (Economist) |
| Henrietta Dundas Bekker |
| Polyanna Murray International skier |
| 2000 |
| Lady Macdonald of Macdonald (Guest Chair) |
| Jennifer Bryson (International catering association) |
| Sandra Murray (Dress designer) |
| Christine Glover(President of the Royal Pharaceutical Society of GB) |
| 1999 |
| Countess of Wemyss and March (Guest Chair) |
| Professor Mary Marshall (Director of Dementia Centre, Stirling University) |
| Ms Seona Reid (Director of Scottish Arts Council) |
| Mrs Elizabeth McAreavey (Businesswoman of the Year) |
| 1998 |
| Dr Anne Lorne Gillies (Guest Chair) |
| The Honourable Lady Cosgrove |
| Nina Campbell |
| Dr. Sheila Wilson |
| 1997 |
| Mrs Grant of Rothiemurcus |
| Maree Leslie |
| Mamie Baird Magnusson |
| Dr. Merle Friedman |
| 1996 |
| Lady Edmonstone (Guest Chair) |
| Susannah Stone |
| Lesley Bale |
| Clare Francis |
| 1995 |
| Mrs Martha Steedman (Guest Chair) |
| Dr. Jean Balfour |
| Emma Ford |
| Eileen Gallagher |
| 1994 |
| The Countess of Strathmore (Guest Chair) |
| Dr. Janice Webster |
| Catherine Maxwell-Stuart |
| Mollie Jackson |
| 1993 |
| Lady Marion Fraser (Guest Chair) |
| The Countess of Dalkeith |
| Dr. Morag Timbury |
| Mrs C Roads |
| 1992 |
| The Countess of Moray (Guest Chair) |
| Maud Menzies |
| Elaine Ross |
| Maureen Thomison |
| 1991 |
| Group Captain Elizabeth Sandison (Guest Chair) |
| Margaret Seymour |
| Su Wood |
| Joan Short |
| 1990 |
| Bridgadier Meechie (Guest Chair) |
| Audrey Baxter |
| Isabel Robertson |
| Netta Martin |
| 1989 |
| Lady Fraser JP (Guest Chair) |
| Joyce Deans |
| Iris Munro |
| Judith Livingston |
| 1988 |
| Lady Strange |
| Maureen Tomison |
| Barbara Davidson |
| Rona Simpson |
| 1987 |
| Lady Mariota Napier (Guest Chair) |
| Jean Muir |
| Mary Lindsay |
| Pat Duckworth |
| 1986 |
| Air Commodore Helen Renton (Guest Chair) |
| Nicky Joyce |
| Aileen Taylor |
| Dorthy Park |
| 1985 |
| Viscountess Arbuthnott (Guest Chair) |
| Janet Nortman |
| Lady Macdonald of Macdonald |
| Moira Meighan |
| 1984 |
| Her Grace the Duchess of Buccleuch (Guest Chair) |
| Her Honour Judge Jean Graham Hall |
| Dr. Joan Macnab |
| Martha Crawford |
| 1983 |
| Her Grace The Duchess of Argyll (Guest Chair) |
| Joyce Waugh |
| Dorothy Whamond |
| Margaret Rose |
| 1982 |
| Her Grace the Duchess of Roxburghe (Guest Chair) |
| Wendy Keith |
| Lisbeth Thoms |
| Mary Meredith |
| 1981 |
| Lady Moncrieff of Tullibole (Guest Chair) |
| Professor Elizabeth Perrot |
| Helen Turnbull |
| Dr. Mary Dawson |
| 1980 |
| Commandant Vonia McBridge (Guest Chair) |
| Mariona Harris |
| Commissioner Eva Burrows |
| Margaret Hewit O.B.E. |
| 1979 |
| Countess of Mansfield (Guest Chair) |
| Annette Yarrow |
| Dr. Sally Solomon |
| Garnor Winyard |
| Her Grace the Duchess of Roxburghe |
| 1978 |
| Countess of Moray (Guest Chair) |
| Celia Jones |
| Dorothy Lawrie |
| Peter Howden |
| 1977 |
| Lady Rotherwick (Guest Chair) |
| Nancy McConkey |
| Elizabeth Thomson |
| Bridget Raynes |
| 1976 |
| Lady Clydesmuir (Guest Chair) |
| Mariona Scatcherd |
| Professor Anne Robertson |
| Maud Menzies |
| 1975 |
| Lady Jean Wemyss (Guest Chair) |
| Dorthy Crawford |
| Jean Kinmond |
| Netta Martin |
| 1974 |
| Brigadier Helen Cattanach (Guest Chair) |
| Kay Farquhar |
| Murtle Simspon |
| Jeanette Williamson |
| 1973 |
| The Hon Mrs Jean Bruce of Glen Tanar (Guest Chair) |
| Francis Wolsey- Neech |
| Esme Murray-Speakman |
| Kirsteen Borland |
| 1972 |
| Lady Jean Fforde (Guest Chair) |
| Joan Cambridge |
| Sheina Marshall |
| Janet Todd |
| 1971 |
| Countess of Cromartie (Guest Chair) |
| Jean Balfour of Balbirnie |
| Ena Baxter |
| Sheila MacDonnell |
| 1970 |
| Countess of Dalhousie (Guest Chair) |
| Bailie Mrs Anna S Douglas |
| Mrs Murray User of Cally |
| Winifred Shand M.B.E. |
| 1969 |
| Lady Muriel Barclay- Harvey (Guest Chair) |
| Her Grace the Duchess of Argyll |
| Lady Georgina Coleridge |
| Brigadier Gordon |
| 1968 |
| Lady Muriel Barclay- Harvey (Guest Chair) |
| Nancy Sanders |
| Elsie Lumsden |
| Winifred Ewing |
| 1967 |
| Countess of Dundee (Guest Chair) |
| Marchioness of Lothian |
| Miss E Willis |
| E.F.Kay |
| Helen McConnochie |
| 1966 |
| Countess of Haddington (Guest Chair) |
| Lady Brocklehurst |
| M.M. Reid |
| Lady Weipers |
| 1965 |
| Countess of Elgin (Guest Chair) |
| Margaret Drummond O.B.E. |
| E.M. Rennie |
| Anne Gillies |
| 1964 |
| The Countess of Eglinton and Winton (Guest Chair) |
| M.E.Brown |
| Wishart Campbell |
| M.E. Perrins |
| 1963 |
| The Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon (Guest Chair) |
| Margaret Havinden |
| Mrs Eric Linklater |
| Gena Mackinnon |
| 1962 |
| The Countess of Airlie (Guest Chair) |
| Dr. Camilla Hay Gillies |
| Muriel Smith |
| Mrs Donald Main |
| Jean Twiddy |
| 1961 |
| The Countess of Minton O.B.E. (Guest Chair) |
| Lady Johnson-Gilbert |
| Lady Maclean of duart |
| Marian McNeill |
| Colonel Elspeth Hobkirk C.B.E., T.D. |
| 1960 |
| The Lady Ruth Balfour of Balbirnie C.B.E., M.B., B.S.(Guest Chair) |
| Helen Crerar |
| Anne Mitchell |
| Kathleen Garscadden |
| The Marchioness of Huntly |
| 1959 |
| The Marchioness of Bute (Guest Chair) |
| Diana Bowes -Lyon |
| Roma Fairley |
| Margaret Gerbison M.P., M.A. |
| Isobel Sinclair B.L., M.A. |
| 1958 |
| Kathleen Elliot C.B.E., C.C. |
| Eleanor Macdonald B.A., M.B.E. |
| Mary George M.B.E. |
