Roseanna Cunningham (born 27 July 1951) is a retired Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who served as Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform from 2016 to 2021.

[2] In 1995 she gained the seat in the Perth and Kinross by-election, succeeding the recently deceased Conservative MP, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn.

[4] She was put back in contention following an intervention by the then party leader Alex Salmond, and after Ewing made clear she had no objection to Cunningham's candidature.

In the early stages of the campaign, she appeared to be the clear front-runner, but former leader Alex Salmond entered the race just before nominations closed and Cunningham finished a distant second.

[6] In December 2006, she led an unsuccessful attempt to prevent same-sex couples from gaining the right to adopt children,[7] despite having previously been named ScotsGay Parliamentarian of the Year in 1998.

After the 2011 election, which saw an SNP landslide, she was appointed Minister for Community Safety and Legal Affairs with special responsibility for tackling sectarianism.