Olga Sánchez Cordero

Olga Sánchez Cordero
Sánchez Cordero in 2018
Member of the
Chamber of Deputies
Proportional representation
Assumed office
1 September 2024
President of the Senate
In office
1 September 2021  31 August 2022
Preceded byEduardo Ramírez Aguilar
Succeeded byAlejandro Armenta Mier
Secretary of the Interior of Mexico
In office
1 December 2018  26 August 2021
PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byAlfonso Navarrete Prida
Succeeded byAdán Augusto López
Senator of Mexico
Proportional representation
In office
26 August 2021  31 August 2024
Preceded byJesusa Rodríguez
In office
1 September 2018  29 November 2018
Succeeded byJesusa Rodríguez
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
In office
26 January 1995  30 November 2015
Appointed byErnesto Zedillo
Preceded bySeat established
Succeeded byNorma Lucía Piña Hernández
Personal details
Born
Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero Dávila

(1947-07-16) 16 July 1947
Mexico City, Mexico
Political partyNational Regeneration Movement
SpouseEduardo García Villegas
Children3
EducationNational Autonomous University of Mexico (LLB)

Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero Dávila (born 16 July 1947) is a Mexican politician and former jurist. She served as Secretary of the Interior under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from 2018 to 2021, the first woman to serve in the position.

From 1995 to 2015, she was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Justice, Mexico's highest federal court. A member of Morena, she has been elected to both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.