Nilda Garré

Nilda Garré
Nilda Garré as Security Minister in 2011.
National deputy
Incumbent
Assumed office December 10, 2015
Argentine Representative to the OAS
In office June 3, 2013 – November 13, 2015
Preceded by	Martín Gómez Bustillo
Succeeded by	Juan José Arcuri
Minister of Security
In office December 15, 2010 – June 3, 2013
President	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Preceded by	Julio Alak (As minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights)
Succeeded by	Arturo Puricelli
Minister of Defense
In office November 28, 2005 – December 15, 2010
President	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Néstor Kirchner
Preceded by	José Pampuro
Succeeded by	Arturo Puricelli
Personal details
Born	(1945-11-03) November 3, 1945 (age 71) Buenos Aires
Nationality	Argentine
Political party	Broad Front Front for Victory
Spouse(s)	Juan Manuel Abal Medina (1973-82)
Alma mater	Universidad del Salvador

Nilda Celia Garré (born November 3, 1945) is an Argentine lawyer, politician, and diplomat. She was Minister of Defense during the presidency of the late Nestor Kirchner and remained in this position, and as Minister of Security, under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. She was the first woman in her country's history to serve in either office. She also served as the Argentine Representative to the OAS. She is currently a deputy at the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.

Garré was born in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, and earned a law degree from the Universidad del Salvador when she was 22 years old. Her father, Raúl Garré, was a Peronist member of the Buenos Aires Province House of Representatives until the 1955 coup against President Juan Perón in 1955.

Elected in the March 1973 Peronist landslide, Garré became the youngest woman elected to Congress in Argentina to that date, and was among those on the flight that returned Perón to Argentina. She married Juan Manuel Abal Medina, who then was the Secretary-General of the Justicialist Party, in 1973.