Sofía Medina de López

Sofía Medina de López Villa (died September 27, 2017) was a Colombian politician. She served as the Mayor of Medellín, the country's second largest city, from 1976 until 1977. Medina de López was Medellín's first female mayor and remains the only woman to hold the mayoral office in the city's history.

Medina de López was raised in the town of Yolombó in Northeastern Antioquia Department. Antioquia Department Governor Jaime Sierra García appointed Guillermo Hincapié Orozco, who took office on July 15, 1977, as her successor.

Today, the Mayor of Medellín is a directly elected office. Sofía Medina de López remains Medellín's only female mayor to date.

Sofía Medina de López died in Bogotá, where she had lived for many years.