Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez Castañeda
| Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez Castañeda | |
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| Senator of Colombia | |
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In office 20 July 2006 – 20 July 2010 |
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| President of the Senate of Colombia | |
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In office 20 July 2007 – 20 July 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Dilian Francisca Toro Torres |
| Succeeded by | Hernán Andrade Serrano |
| Member of the Colombian Chamber of Representatives | |
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In office 20 July 1998 – 20 July 2006 |
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| Constituency | Cundinamarca Department |
| President of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia | |
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In office 30 March 2000 – 20 July 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Armando Pomárico Ramos |
| Succeeded by | Basilio Villamizar Trujillo |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 October 1963 Girardot, Cundinamarca, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Colombia Always |
| Other political affiliations |
Radical Change Liberal (1988–2004) |
| Alma mater | Our Lady of the Rosary University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | www |
Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez Castañeda (born 16 October 1963) is a Colombian lawyer and politician. She served as Senator of Colombia and Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, having served in both chambers as President.
Gutiérrez Castañeda, a lawyer from the Our Lady of the Rosary University, was the first elected in 1988 as Mayor of the Municipality of Agua de Dios, Cundinamarca, representing the political movement Colombia Always, a movement created within the Colombian Liberal Party. After finalizing her term in 1990 Gutiérrez Castañeda was appointed Regional Director of the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) in 1991. She later returned to the political arena when she supported Leonor Serrano for the Governorship of Cundinamarca in 1994. When Serrano was elected she appointed Gutiérrez Castañeda as Secretary of Environment in January 1995, and a year later as Secretary General.
In 1997, she resigned from Serrano's administration to postulate herself for the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia for the legislative elections of 1998.
After a long deliberation process following the corruption scandal that resulted in the resignation of the President of the Chamber of Representatives, Armando Pomárico, Gutiérrez Castañeda was elected by the liberal majority coalition to finish Pomárico's term as President of the Chamber of the Representatives of Colombia, and became on March 30, 2000 the first woman to ever serve as President of the Chamber in the history of Colombia. Although her short presidency ended on July 20, 2000, she terminated the programs her predecessor was accused of, like foreign trips, gasoline allowances for the transportation of congress members, and the payroll discrepancies that so infuriated the public. In 2002 Gutiérrez Castañeda was re-elected representing the Colombia Always movement supporting once again Leonor Serrano who ran for a seat in the Senate. In 2004 Colombia Always left the Liberal coalition and joined the ranks of the Radical Change.
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