Paul Stewart McLennan is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for East Lothian since 2021. He has served as a local councillor for the Dunbar and East Linton multi-member ward of East Lothian Council since 2007 having previously been an unsuccessful candidate in earlier elections to single-member wards, and was both the SNP group leader and the council leader from 2007 to 2012. He has been a board member of NHS Lothian, the regional offices of Scottish Enterprise and the Commission on School Reform.