Nora Ruvalcaba Gámez | |
Office: | Coordinator of the Development Programs of the State of Aguascalientes |
Term Start: | 2 September 2021 |
Term End: | 1 January 2022 |
Predecessor: | Aldo Ruíz Sánchez |
Successor: | Silvia Licon Davila |
Office2: | Deputy of the Congress of Aguascalientes for Proportional representation |
Term Start2: | 15 November 2007 |
Term End2: | 6 March 2010 |
Successor2: | Guillermo Román Esqueda |
Office3: | Councilor of Aguascalientes Town Hall |
Term Start3: | 1 January 2002 |
Term End3: | 31 December 2004 |
Birth Date: | 1967 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Pabellón de Arteaga, Aguascalientes, Mexico |
Education: | Autonomous University of Aguascalientes |
Occupation: | Politician, teacher, lawyer |
Party: | PRD (1997–2014) MORENA (from 2014) |
Nora Ruvalcaba Gámez (born 8 August 1967) is a Mexican educator and politician who is member of the National Regeneration Movement. She served as the party's first state president in Aguascalientes (2012–2015).
On 31 August 2021, she served as State Delegate of the Programs for the Development of the State of Aguascalientes, a position she left on 7 January 2022 to contend for the government of the state of Aguascalientes representing MORENA.
She has served as Councilor in the Aguascalientes Town Hall (2002–2004) and local Deputy to the Congress of Aguascalientes (2007–2010).[1] [2] [3]
Ruvalcaba studied at the Normal School of Aguascalientes and graduated with a degree in primary education. After her, she completed her studies at the Escuela Normal Superior, this time in social sciences. She finally obtained a third degree, at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes as a Law graduate with a specialty in Constitutional.
She began her political career within the Party of the Democratic Revolution (1997–2012), she was president of the Municipal Executive Committee in Aguascalientes (1997–2000), General Secretary of the State Executive Committee (2005–2007) and finally national councilor (2007–2010). She was councilor of the Town Hall of Municipality of Aguascalientes (2002–2004) and local deputy in the Sixtieth Legislature corresponding to the period 2007–2010. In 2010 she ran as a candidate for governor of Aguascalientes for the Party of the Democratic Revolution. In 2012 she was the founder of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in Aguascalientes and in 2016 she was a candidate for governor for said party, where she obtained fourth place with 3.18% of the vote. In addition, she was a candidate for federal deputy for the third district in the federal elections of 2015. She was the delegate of Programs for the Development of the State of Aguascalientes.
Ruvalcaba Gámez won election as Aguascalientes's third senator in the 2024 Senate election, occupying the first place on the Sigamos Haciendo Historia coalition's two-name formula.[4] [5]