Héctor Ortiz Ortiz

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Héctor Israel Ortiz Ortiz (b. July 28, 1950 in Oaxaca) is a Mexican politician who currently serves as Governor of Tlaxcala.

[edit] Professional career

Héctor Ortiz holds a bachelor's degree in law. He has been professor of law at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (UAT) since 1974. Ortiz served as Rector of the UAT from 1983 to 1987 and again from 1999 to 2000. From 1990 to 1991 he served as Secretary of Education of the State of Tlaxcala. He served in the lower house of the Mexican Congress during the LV (1991 to 1994) and the LVIII Legislatures. In 2002 he was elected Mayor of Tlaxcala.

Ortiz joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1967 and was an active member until 2004 when he resigned to the PRI after losing the party's internal bid for the governorship of Tlaxcala. He then accepted the invitation from the National Action Party (PAN) to run for the governorship as the PAN candidate; he won the elections held on November 14, 2004 and took office on January 14, 2005.

Preceded by Alfonso Sánchez Anaya	Governor of Tlaxcala 2005 — Present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Current Mexican State Governors
Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso Baja California: José Guadalupe Osuna Millán Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés Colima: Silverio Cavazos Durango: Ismael Hernández Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez	Guerrero: Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca Hidalgo: Miguel Osorio Chong Jalisco: Emilio González Márquez State of México: Enrique Peña Nieto Michoacán: Leonel Godoy Rangel Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame Castillo Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez Nuevo León: Natividad González Parás Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz Puebla: Mario Plutarco Marín Torres Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón	Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar Padilla Sonora: Eduardo Bours Tabasco: Andrés Rafael Granier Melo Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán Yucatán: Ivonne Ortega Pacheco Zacatecas: Amalia García