Héctor Ortiz Ortiz


Héctor Israel Ortiz Ortiz is a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Tlaxcala.

Professional career

Héctor Ortiz holds a bachelor's degree in law. He has been professor of law at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala 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 and the LVIII Legislatures. In 2002 he was elected Mayor of Tlaxcala.

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