Virginia Martinez (Louisiana politician)

Virginia Morse "Ginny" Martinez
Born	Virginia Morse c. 1922 Milford, Worcester County Massachusetts, USA
Died	June 25, 1992 (aged 69) New Orleans, Louisiana
Alma mater	Hunter College
Occupation	Republican party official
Spouse(s)	Reginald Vincent Martinez, Jr. (1922-2006) (m. 1946–92)
Children	Charles Martinez Richard Martinez Reginald V. Martinez, III

Virginia Morse Martinez, usually known as Ginny Martinez (born c. 1922 - June 25, 1992), was a long-term Louisiana Republican Party official who is credited with having landed her party's 1988 national convention in her adopted home city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Delegates nominated the Bush-Quayle ticket. Martinez had been a notable supporter of Bush.

Martinez was the Louisiana Republican National Committeewoman from 1977 until her death in 1992. As a member of the RNC Executive Committee in Washington, D.C., she fought for the Louisiana Superdome as the 1988 convention site. Martinez was a member of both the convention Host Committee, which produced the 80-page program, and the Calendar Committee. The delegates were greeted by then Democratic Governor Buddy Roemer, who three years later in the spring of 1991 switched to Republican affiliation but left the GOP to run for U.S. President in 2012.

Martinez was born in Milford in Worcester County in southern Massachusetts. She graduated from St. Mary's Academy there and then Hunter College in New York City. During World War II, she was a lieutenant in the United States Navy WAVES. In 1946, after her marriage to Reginald V. Martinez, Jr. (1922–2006), she relocated to New Orleans, where her family resided until 1977, when the Martinezes moved to the nearby suburb of Kenner in Jefferson Parish.

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