Rutilio Escandón

Rutilio Escandón
Escandón In 2022
Governor of Chiapas
In office
8 December 2018  7 December 2024
Preceded byManuel Velasco Coello
Succeeded byEduardo Ramírez Aguilar
Deputy of the Congress of the Union
for the 3rd Circumscription
In office
1 September 2006  31 August 2009
ConstituencyChiapas
Senator of the Congress of the Union
for Chiapas
In office
1 September 2000  31 August 2006
Preceded byIrma Serrano
Succeeded byRubén Velázquez López
Personal details
Born
Rutilio Cruz Escandón Cadenas

(1958-05-03) 3 May 1958
Venustiano Carranza, Chiapas, Mexico
Political partyMORENA
Spouse
(m. 2013; died 2024)
EducationAutonomous University of Baja California (LLB)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (LLM, PhD)
OccupationLawyer

Rutilio Cruz Escandón Cadenas (born 3 May 1958) is a Mexican lawyer and politician from Chiapas. He is affiliated with MORENA and was the Governor of Chiapas from 2018 to 2024. Before becoming governor, he represented Chiapas as a senator of the LVIII and LIX and as a federal deputy in the LX Legislature.