Rosalinda López Hernández

Rosalinda López Hernández (12 August 1967 – 5 June 2024)

Life López Hernández was born on 12 August 1967 in Cárdenas, Tabasco, Mexico.

She was a public accountant by virtue of a degree in that field from the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT) and held a master's degree in Economic Auditing, Finance and Accountancy from the Autonomous University of Madrid. and she was governor of Chiapas (2018–2024) Rutilio Escandón Cadenas's wife.

Career Private sector She pursued her professional career at first in the private sector as a partner and consultant in the offices of López y López Auditores, Consultores y Asesores, S.C.; in 1988 she was an accountant in the offices of Promotora y Asesoría S.A. de C.V., from 1988 to 1989 with Grupo Constructor Comal, S.A. de C.V., from 1989 to 1990 in the accounting offices of Bores Loring Auditores, S.A., from 1990 to 1991 in the offices of José Guadalupe Rodríguez Bonfil, and from 1992 to 1993 she was a member of the Fiscal Commission of the Employers' Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana; COPARMEX) -Tabasco. From 1999 to 2000 she was treasurer of the Tabasco College of Public Accountants, after having been a member since 1992. and as such she was the president of the Finance and Budget Commission as well as a member of the Governance Commission, the Constitutional Point Commission and the first Financial Oversight Commission. which saw her elected by proportional representation to the LXI Tabasco State Legislature, which would end in 2015. In that year, she forsook her PRD militancy and accepted a candidacy from the National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) and the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (Partido Verde Ecologista de México, PVEM) for the municipal presidency (mayoralty) of Centro in the 2015 state elections; she did not win, however, losing to Gerardo Gaudiano Rovirosa, the PRD and New Alliance candidate, and ending up in third place among voters' preferences.

Death López Hernández died on 5 June 2024 at the age of 56, only three days after being elected for the second time as a senator for the state of Tabasco. She had won re-election as one of Tabasco's senators in the 2024 Senate election, occupying first place on the National Regeneration Movement's two-name formula.