Dame Sheila Marshall McKechnie DBE (3 May 1948 – 2 January 2004) was a Scottish trade unionist, housing campaigner and consumer activist.
After working as a trade union official in the 1970s, during which she was active in the women's movement, she became director of the housing and homelessness charity Shelter in 1985.
[3] After ten years in this post, she left to become head of the Consumers' Association, campaigning on a wide range of issues, often using headline-grabbing stunts.
Following her death in 2004, aged 55, the Sheila McKechnie Foundation was established to support a new generation of campaigners.
[3] In 2006, a bronze bust of Sheila McKechnie was erected in the walled garden within Dollar Park in Falkirk, near her birthplace of Camelon.