CABINET
 Donald Dewar announced his team shortly after he was appointed
first minister by the Queen in a ceremony in Edinburgh.
The 61-year-old MSP for Glasgow
Anniesland and former Scottish secretary said his aim was to
ensure an effective coalition administration for Scotland.
Speaking after his appointment
as first minister, he said: "You can't do this as just a
small group of politicians, there has got to be a force for change
- at the end of the day it is a political opportunity that has
got to be taken.
"Negotiations with the Liberal
Democrats will I hope promote stable government. It's very much
a case now of getting down to work for Scotland."
 Jim Wallace
who steered his party into the historic pact with Labour, is
Scotland's minister for justice in the new administration.
A QC, the 44-year-old is the
MSP for Orkney and was elected as the Westminster MP for Orkney
and Shetland in 1983.
His portfolio will include responsibility
for the police and criminal law. Married with two daughters,
he is an elder of the Church of Scotland.
 Henry McLeish,
50, is minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, charged
with overseeing the promised review of tuition fees - a key element
of the coalition deal.
He steered the all-party consultative
steering group set up to agree the workings of the Scottish Parliament.
As minister responsible for prisons
and law and order in Scotland, he faced a number of controversies,
including concern over the number of suicides at Scotland's only
women-only prison at Cornton Vale.
Mr McLeish, the MSP for Central
Fife, was tipped to become Mr Dewar's deputy until the coalition
agreement was signed.
 Sam Galbraith
is the former Scottish Office health minister appointed as minister
for children and education.
The post also takes in responsibility
for culture and the arts, sports and lottery funding - briefs
the 53-year-old former neurosurgeon held in his previous ministerial
position.
Mr Galbraith became an MP for
the Strathkelvin and Bearden constituency in 1987 and now also
represents the constituency in the Scottish Parliament.
The father-of-three underwent
a lung transplant in 1990.
 The
key role as minister for health and community care has been handed
to Susan Deacon.
The 34-year-old Edinburgh University
graduate made it to the parliament despite failing to get through
the party's selection procedure.
She successfully appealed and
was subsequently elected as MSP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh.
She is a graduate of Edinburgh
University and former business consultant.
 Jack McConnell
has been named as minister for finance, including responsibility
for the £15bn Scottish budget.
A former mathematics teacher,
the MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw has played a pivotal role within
the Scottish Labour party.
He was general secretary from
1992 until 1998 and campaign manager during the 1997 general
election.
Mr McConnell cites his political
interests as public management and finance and industrial policy.
 Liberal
Democrat Ross Finnie is minister for rural affairs with
the new administration.
Mr Finnie was elected to the
Scottish Parliament via the West of Scotland regional list.
The former self-employed chartered
accountant is the party's spokesman on economics and finance.
Educated at Greenock Academy
and married with two children, Mr Finnie is an "ardent"
rugby supporter.
 Wendy Alexander,
a former special adviser to Mr Dewar at the Scottish Office,
is minister for social Inclusion, local government and housing.
She also has special responsibility
for equality issues and the voluntary sector.
The former management consultant
and now MSP for Paisley North is tipped as a rising prospect
within the party and even a possible future Scottish Labour leader.
She had a high profile during
the election campaign, spearheading the party's economic policy.
 Sarah
Boyack, a member of the
negotiating team which drew up the coalition deal, is minister
for transport and the environment with responsibility for the
development of an integrated transport policy.
The 37-year-old MSP for Edinburgh
Central is a former lecturer in town planning at Edinburgh College
of Art and Heriot Watt University.
Her father James and mother Alma
were both Labour activists and James was an ardent campaigner
for Home Rule.
She is a board member of the
Scottish Centre for Public Policy and Scottish co-ordinator of
Labour's environment campaign.
 Lord Hardie,
53, who was appointed Lord Advocate by the Scottish secretary
in 1997, continues the role within the Scottish executive.
Scotland's most senior law officer,
he served as an advocate depute from 1978 until 1983 and was
dean of the faculty of advocates from 1994 until 1997.
He was educated in Stirling and
at Edinburgh University and is married with two children.
 First
minister Donald Dewar has appointed Tom McCabe as chief
whip.
The Hamilton South MSP is a former
leader of South Lanarkshire Council and welfare rights officer.
He has 20 years experience in
engineering and a diploma in public sector management.
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