Lena Guerrero

Lena Guerrero Aguirre (November 27, 1957 – April 24, 2008) was a Texan political figure who served in the Texas House of Representatives. She was later appointed as the first woman and first non-white member of the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the oil and natural gas industry. Her political career ended in 1992 over a falsified résumé scandal.

In the 1960s, Guerrero and her siblings were migrant workers. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she was president of the Young Democrats of Texas.

She died of brain cancer at the age of fifty.