| Aurora Jiménez de Palacios | |
| Office: | Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Baja California′s at-large district |
| Term Start: | September 7, 1954 |
| Term End: | August 31, 1955 |
| Predecessor: | District created |
| Successor: | District abolished |
| Birth Date: | 9 December 1922 |
| Death Cause: | Plane crash |
| Party: | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
Aurora Jiménez de Palacios (December 9, 1922 – April 15, 1958) was a Mexican lawyer and politician who became the first female federal deputy in Mexico.[1] [2]
In 1937 she participated in the formation of the Confederation of Mexican Workers, in Culiacán, Sinaloa.[3]
She was a graduate of the University of Guadalajara in 1947.[1] Also in 1947, Martha Aurora married José Cruz Palacios Sánchez and changed her residence to the city of Mexicali, where her husband was originally from.[4]
Later she represented Baja California as a federal deputy in the 42nd Legislature.[5] [6] She was the first female federal deputy in Mexico.[1]
She was killed in a plane crash on April 15, 1958.[3]