Education
Watson was educated at Manorbier School, Cosheston School and Cardigan Comprehensive before going on to Pembrokeshire College in 1990.
Member of the National Assembly for Wales
Watson was educated at Manorbier School, Cosheston School and Cardigan Comprehensive before going on to Pembrokeshire College in 1990.
An active Labour Party member, Watson was elected to Pembrokeshire County Council at the inaugural elections in 1995, capturing a seat in Haverfordwest from the Independents. She retained her seat in 1999 and 2004. She was leader of the Labour group on Pembrokeshire Council for six years, and the only female member on the authority representing a ward within the Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency from 1995 until 2004.
She has worked on social justice projects such as the award winning Garth youth project, which she chairs.
Watson was elected as an Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales in May 2007. She is also Vice-Chair of the Cross Party Group on Eating Disorders and Vice-Chair of the Cross-Party group for Looked-after Children.
In 1993, she studied politics at Swansea University, later gaining an honours degree at the same time as running Labour"s successful parliamentary campaign for Preseli Pembrokeshire. Watson is also Rural Affairs spokesperson for Labour in the Assembly, a member of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly and Chair of the Cross Party Group on the Trafficking of Women and Children, which she set up.
She was a member of Dyfed Powys Police Authority and the Pembrokeshire Spatial Plan working group. Watson was Manager of the Wales Women's National Coalition with an all Wales remit and was a senior member of the Wales Gender Budget Group and the National Health Service Equality Reference Group. She is currently a member of the Equality of Opportunity Committee, Communities and Culture Committee, Subordinate Legislation Committee and Finance Committee.
