Liz Cameron is a former

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. Born in

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, she graduated from the

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and became a college lecturer, teaching at Bell College of Technology in

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. First elected as a Labour member of the

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in 1992, she was elected to the new

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to represent the ''

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South'' ward in 1995. After having served as convener of the council's ''Art and Culture Committee'' from 1998 to 2003, she was unanimously elected by the city council to replace

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as Lord Provost in May 2003, a post which she held for four years. After her term as Lord Provost, she sat as a councillor for a further 10 years, before retiring from the council at the

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