List of female state governors in Mexico
As of 2023, 14 of the 32 Mexican federal entities (31 states and the capital, Mexico City) have had a female state governor. Mexico's first female state governor was Griselda Álvarez Ponce de León,[1] who was elected chief executive of the state of Colima for the 1979–85 period. Others have followed since:
List
| Name | Portrait | State | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end |
Term length | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Griselda Alvarez |  Colima
|
Governor | 1 November 1979 | 1 November 1985 | 6 years, 0 days | PRI | |
| Beatriz Paredes Rangel |  |
 Tlaxcala
|
Governor | 15 January 1987 | 11 April 1992 | 5 years, 87 days | PRI |
| Dulce Maria Sauri Riancho |  |
 Yucatán
|
Governor | 14 February 1991 | 1 December 1993 | 2 years, 290 days | PRI |
| Rosario Robles |  |
 Mexico City
|
Governor | 29 September 1999 | 4 December 2000 | 1 year, 66 days | PRD |
| Amalia García |  |
 Zacatecas
|
Governor | 12 September 2004 | 12 September 2010 | 6 years, 0 days | PRD |
| Ivonne Ortega Pacheco |  |
Yucatán
|
Governor | 1 August 2007 | 30 September 2012 | 5 years, 60 days | MC |
| Claudia Artemiza Pavlovich | _(cropped).jpg) |
 Sonora
|
Governor | 15 September 2015 | 15 September 2021 | 6 years, 0 days | PRI |
| Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo | .jpg) |
Mexico City
|
Governor | 5 December 2018 | 16 June 2023 | 4 years, 193 days | Morena |
| Martha Erika Alonso |  |
 Puebla
|
Govenor | 14 December 2018 | 24 December 2018 | 10 days | PAN |
| Lorena Cuellar Cisneros |  |
Tlaxcala
|
Governor | 31 August 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 171 days | Morena |
| Maria Eugenia Campos Galvan |  |
 Chihuahua
|
Governor | 8 September 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 163 days | PAN |
| Layda Sansores | .jpg) |
 Campeche
|
Governor | 15 September 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 156 days | Morena |
| Evelyn Salgado Pineda |  |
 Guerrero
|
Governor | 15 October 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 126 days | Morena |
| Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda | .jpg) |
 Baja California
|
Governor | 1 November 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 109 days | Morena |
| Indira Vizcaíno Silva | .jpg) |
Colima
|
Governor | 1 November 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 109 days | Morena |
| Mara Lezama Espinosa |  |
 Quintana Roo
|
Governor | 5 September 2022 | Incumbent | 3 years, 166 days | Morena |
| Maria Teresa Jimenez Esquivel |  |
 Aguascalientes
|
Governor | 1 October 2022 | Incumbent | 3 years, 140 days | PAN |
| Delfina Gomez Alvarez | .jpg) |
 State of Mexico
|
Governor | 16 September 2023 | Incumbent | 2 years, 155 days | Morena |
| Maria Dolores Fritz Sierra |  |
Yucatán
|
Governor | 7 May 2024 | 30 September 2024 | 146 days | PAN |
| Libia García Muñoz Ledo | .jpg) |
 Guanajuato
|
Governor | 26 September 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 145 days | PAN |
| Margarita González Saravia | .jpg) |
 Morelos
|
Governor | 1 October 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 140 days | Morena |
| Clara Brugada | .jpg) |
Mexico City
|
Governor | 5 October 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 136 days | Morena |
| Rocío Nahle García |  |
 Veracruz
|
Governor | 1 December 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 79 days | Morena |
See also
References
- ^ "Aniversario luctuoso de Griselda Álvarez, primera gobernadora en México". gob.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 May 2024.