Lina María Moreno Mejía
| Lina María Moreno Mejía | |
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| First Lady of Colombia | |
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In role 7 August 2002 – 7 August 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Nohra Puyana Bickenbach |
| Succeeded by | María Clemencia Rodríguez Múnera |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 December 1955 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Democratic Center |
| Spouse(s) | Álvaro Uribe Vélez (1979-present) |
| Children | Tomás Uribe Moreno Jerónimo Alberto Uribe Moreno |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Bolivarian University (B.Phil) |
Lina María Moreno Mejía (born 13 November 1955) is the wife of the 31st President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe Vélez, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 2002 to 2010.
Lina María was born on 13 November 1955 in Medellín, Antioquia, to Darío Moreno Restrepo (b. 9 October 1920) and Marina Mejía Mejía (1 August 1929 — 21 June 1997), the youngest and only daughter, she has one older brother named Carlos Enrique (b. 13 December 1953)
She met Álvaro Uribe Vélez, a 26 year Law graduate from the University of Antioquia, at the age of 23 in March 1979 by chance when she was walking with a friend in Medellín. After a very short romance, the two became engaged, and on 1 December 1979 they got married. She had dropped out of the Pontifical Bolivarian University to raise her children where she was studying literature and linguistics, but returned in 1986 and eventually graduated from it with a Bachelor of Philosophy.
Moreno and Uribe have two children: Tomás (b. 19 April 1981) a Chemical Engineer from the University of the Andes who is married (26 July 2008) to Isabel Sofía Cabrales Baquero (b. 17 July 1979), a Political Scientist from the Pontifical Xavierian University, former model and First Runner-Up at the Miss Colombia 2002 and who is expecting their first child; and Jerónimo Alberto (b. 16 July 1983) an Economist from the University of the Andes who is married (21 April 2012) to Shadia Farah Abuchaibe, a communications graduate from the Pontifical Xavierian University.
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