List of female state governors in Mexico
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As of 2023, 14 of the 32 Mexican federal entities (31 states and the capital, Mexico City) have had a female state governor. Mexico's first female state governor was Griselda Álvarez Ponce de León,[1] who was elected chief executive of the state of Colima for the 1979–85 period. Others have followed since:
List
| Name | Portrait | State | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end |
Term length | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Griselda Álvarez |  Colima |
Governor | 1 November 1979 | 1 November 1985 | 6 years, 0 days | PRI | |
| Beatriz Paredes Rangel |  |
 Tlaxcala |
Governor | 15 January 1987 | 11 April 1992 | 5 years, 87 days | PRI |
| Dulce María Sauri Riancho |  |
 Yucatán |
Governor | 14 February 1991 | 1 December 1993 | 2 years, 290 days | PRI |
| Rosario Robles |  |
 Mexico City |
Governor | 29 September 1999 | 4 December 2000 | 1 year, 66 days | PRD |
| Amalia García |  |
 Zacatecas |
Governor | 12 September 2004 | 12 September 2010 | 6 years, 0 days | PRD |
| Ivonne Ortega Pacheco |  |
Yucatán |
Governor | 1 August 2007 | 30 September 2012 | 5 years, 60 days | MC |
| Claudia Artemiza Pavlovich | _(cropped).jpg) |
 Sonora |
Governor | 15 September 2015 | 15 September 2021 | 6 years, 0 days | PRI |
| Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo | .jpg) |
Mexico City |
Governor | 5 December 2018 | 16 June 2023 | 4 years, 193 days | Morena |
| Martha Erika Alonso |  |
 Puebla |
Governor | 14 December 2018 | 24 December 2018 | 10 days | PAN |
| Lorena Cuéllar Cisneros |  |
Tlaxcala |
Governor | 31 August 2021 | Incumbent | 5 years, 43 days | Morena |
| María Eugenia Campos Galván |  |
 Chihuahua |
Governor | 8 September 2021 | Incumbent | 5 years, 35 days | PAN |
| Layda Sansores | .jpg) |
 Campeche |
Governor | 15 September 2021 | Incumbent | 5 years, 28 days | Morena |
| Evelyn Salgado Pineda |  |
 Guerrero |
Governor | 15 October 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 363 days | Morena |
| Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda | .jpg) |
 Baja California |
Governor | 1 November 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 346 days | Morena |
| Indira Vizcaíno Silva | .jpg) |
Colima |
Governor | 1 November 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 346 days | Morena |
| Mara Lezama Espinosa |  Quintana Roo |
Governor | 5 September 2022 | Incumbent | 4 years, 38 days | Morena | |
| María Teresa Jiménez Esquivel |  |
 Aguascalientes |
Governor | 1 October 2022 | Incumbent | 4 years, 12 days | PAN |
| Delfina Gómez Álvarez | .jpg) |
 State of Mexico |
Governor | 16 September 2023 | Incumbent | 3 years, 27 days | Morena |
| María Dolores Fritz Sierra |  |
Yucatán |
Governor | 7 May 2024 | 30 September 2024 | 146 days | PAN |
| Libia García Muñoz Ledo | .jpg) |
 Guanajuato |
Governor | 26 September 2024 | Incumbent | 2 years, 17 days | PAN |
| Margarita González Saravia | .jpg) |
 Morelos |
Governor | 1 October 2024 | Incumbent | 2 years, 12 days | Morena |
| Clara Brugada | .jpg) |
Mexico City |
Governor | 5 October 2024 | Incumbent | 2 years, 8 days | Morena |
| Rocío Nahle García |  |
 Veracruz |
Governor | 1 December 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 316 days | Morena |
| Yeraldine Bonilla Valverde |  Sinaloa |
Governor | 2 May 2026 | 21 August 2026 | 111 days | Morena | |
| Graciela Dominguez Nava | Sinaloa |
Governor | 25 August 2026 | Incumbent | 49 days | Morena |