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María Teresa Herrera
María Teresa Herrera
President of the Superior Court of Justice of Nuevo León
In office 1996–1999
Preceded by	Nicolas Díaz Obregón
Succeeded by	Enrique Guzmán Benavides

María Teresa Herrera Tello (born October 15, 1956, in Santiago, Nuevo León) is a Mexican lawyer. She served in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox as Secretary of Agrarian Reform (2000 – 2003).

Life

She was born on October 15, 1956, in Santiago, Nuevo León.

Herrera Tello graduated as a valedictorian with a bachelor's degree in law from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.

She was the first woman in the history of Nuevo León to become a magistrate in the state's Superior Court of Justice (in Spanish: Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Nuevo León). Eventually she presided over the court and was reelected four consecutive times.

She served as Secretary of Agrarian Reform (Secretaria de la Reforma Agraria) from December 1, 2000, until April 5, 2003, when she was appointed legal councilor to the Mexican president. On November 18, 2004, she was appointed councilor to the Federal Judicature Council (Consejo de la Judicatura Federal).

References

1. "Title". 2005-02-26. Archived from the original on 2005-02-26. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
2. Johnson, Lyman L. (2004). Death, Dismemberment, and Memory: Body Politics in Latin America. UNM Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-3201-1.

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