Margarita Zavala
| Margarita Zavala de Calderón | |
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Margarita Zavala, December 2015
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| First Lady of Mexico | |
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In role December 1, 2006 – November 30, 2012 |
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| President | Felipe Calderón |
| Preceded by | Marta Sahagún |
| Succeeded by | Angélica Rivera |
| Member of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies by proportional representation |
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In office August 29, 2003 – April 1, 2006 |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District | |
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In office September 15, 1994 – September 14, 1997 |
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Margarita Ester Zavala Gómez del Campo 25 July 1967 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | PAN |
| Spouse(s) | Felipe Calderón (m. 1993) |
| Children | María, Luis Felipe, Juan Pablo |
| Alma mater | Escuela Libre de Derecho |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Website | Official website |
Margarita Zavala de Calderón (Spanish pronunciation: [marɣaˈɾita saˈβala]; born Margarita Ester Zavala Gómez del Campo on 25 July 1967) is a Mexican lawyer and politician. She is the wife of the former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón and served as the First Lady of Mexico during her husband's tenure.
Margarita Zavala was born on 25 July 1967 in Mexico City. She is the fifth of seven siblings: Diego Hildebrando, Mercedes, Pablo, Juan Ignacio, Rafael and Mónica. Her parents, Diego Zavala Pérez and Mercedes Gómez del Campo, were lawyers. Her father was a magistrate in the . She attended the Instituto Asunción, an academy run by nuns. She became a youth leader of the Partido Acción Nacional at age 17. She first met Felipe Calderón in 1984, when both were activists for the PAN party. Zavala studied law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, where she graduated with a 9.5 (out of ten) grade point average. Her thesis, La Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos: antecedentes, estructura y propuestas, was on the National Human Rights Commission.
Zavala worked for the private law firms Estrada, González y de Ovendo and Sodi y Asociados. Zavala was a Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District between 15 September 1994 and 14 September 1997. Zavala was a professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana (1991-1992) and also taught law at the Instituto Asunción (1990 to 1999), her high-school alma mater. Zavala is a regular op-ed contributor to El Universal.
Zavala has been a national councilor for the National Action Party since 1991, and was the PAN's Legal Director of the National Executive Committee from 1993 to 1994. In 1995, she was a Mexican delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women. Zavala was named by Luis Felipe Bravo Mena to head the Secretaria de Promoción Política de la Mujer, which is the party's office for the promotion of the participation of women in politics, serving from 1999 to 2003. During her four years as head, the proportion of female PAN federal deputies increased from 19% to 32%, the largest of any political party.
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