Maria Lavalle Urbina

Maria Lavalle Urbina (1908-1996). Born in 1908 in Campeche City, she was a primary school teacher, lawyer, and the first woman to qualify as a lawyer in her home state; first female Supreme Court of Justice of the District and Federal Territories 1947th 1954; First woman to preside over the Senate of the Republic in 1965, by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the XLVI-XLVII Legislature. She represented Mexico in 30 international meetings and assemblies of the OAS Inter-American Commission on Women. In their recognitions they highlight: ′′ Woman of the Year ", in 1963; UN award for eminent services to the cause of human rights in 1973; medal of honour to the legal merit of the National Lawyers Association In 1979; Just Sierra Medal of the Government of Campeche in 1981; Belisario Domínguez medal of the Senate of the Republic in 1985. Shee died on April 23, 1996. In Campeche there is a cultural foundation that bears her name.