Martha Chávez Padrón de Velázquez

Background

Chávez Padrón de Velázquez, Martha was born on July 31, 1925 in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Student of Agustín Yáñez at National Autonomous University.

Education

Early education unknown. Studies in literature, School of Philosophy and Letters, National Autonomous University. Law degree, National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1943-1948.

Doctor of Laws, National Autonomous University, 1954 (first Mexican woman to receive a doctorate in law). Professor specializing in rural sociology, National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1946-1976, the National School of Agriculture and at the Secretariat of Agriculture and the Secretariat of Public Education.

Career

Senator from Tamaulipas, 1976-1982. Federal Deputy from the State of Tamaulipas, District 9, 1982-1985. Joined Institutional Revolutionary Party as a student activist, 1946.

Worked for Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1959. Director of Social Action of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1961-1964. Member of the National Council of Women of Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Member of the Advisory Council to the Institute of Economic, Political, and Social Studies of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1972. Director General of Agrarian Laws, Department of Agrarian Affairs, 1964-1967. Adviser to the President of Mexico, 1967-1970.

Subsecretary of the New Centers of Ejido Populations, Secretariat of Agrarian Reform, 1970-1976. Supernumerary Justice of the Supreme Court, since 1985. Author of several law texts.

Practicing lawyer, 1948-1958. First female professor at the National School of Law, National Autonomous University.

Achievements

• First female lawyer from Tamaulipas.

Religion

Roman Catholic

Membership

Member of the National Executive Committee of the National Farmers’ Federation, 1976.

Connections

teacher:

Agustín Yáñez