María Isabel Mejía Marulanda

María Isabel Mejía Marulanda
Senator of Colombia
In office
27 August 2008  20 July 2010
Preceded byCarlos Armando García Orjuela
In office
25 November 2004  20 July 2006
Preceded byErnesto Zuluaga Ramírez
In office
20 July 2002  28 August 2004
Succeeded byErnesto Zuluaga Ramírez
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
20 July 1986  20 July 2002
ConstituencyRisaralda Department
11th Governor of Risaralda
In office
1 January 1976  1 January 1977
PresidentAlfonso López Michelsen
Preceded byAlberto Mesa Abadía
Succeeded byCarlos Arturo Ángel Arango
Mayor of Pereira
In office
1 January 1975  1 January 1976
PresidentAlfonso López Michelsen
Preceded byOctavio Mejía Marulanda
Succeeded byCésar Gaviria Trujillo
Personal details
Born (1945-03-16) 16 March 1945
Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia
Political partyParty of the U (2005-present)
Other political
affiliations
Liberal (1977-2005)
RelationsVictoriana Mejía Marulanda (sister)
Alma materMichigan State University (BA, MA)
ProfessionEconomist

María Isabel Mejía Marulanda (born 16 March 1945) is a retired Colombian politician and economist. She served in Congress first as Representative for her home department of Risaralda from 1986 to 2002, and then as Senator from 2002 to 2006, and again in 2008 to 2010 in. A longtime Liberal party politician, she left the party in 2005 to form the Social Party of National Unity, a national political party formed by members of both mainstream parties in support of then President Álvaro Uribe Vélez.