Célida López Cárdenas

Célida Teresa López Cárdenas (born 15 December 1979) is a Mexican politician and law graduate. She was municipal president of Hermosillo for the Morena party from 2018 to 2021, former head of the Secretary of Tourism of Sonora, and is currently head of the Chief of the Office of the Executive of the State of Sonora.

Education and career
López Cárdenas was born in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, on 15 December 1979. She has a master's degree in political science and a specialty in Political Institutions and Processes, as well as an MBA in business management from IPADE. She chaired the Justice and Human Rights Commission of the LXI Legislature in the State Congress. She was also Undersecretary of Citizen Participation and Institutional Liaison in the Government of the State of Sonora. From 2011 to 2015 she was president of the Sonoran State Participation Board and State Public Relations Coordinator of the Ministry of Health of the Government of Baja California. From 2015 to 2018 she was a local deputy in the LXI Legislature for District II of the State of Sonora representing the National Action Party (PAN).

In 2018 she ran as a candidate for municipal president of Hermosillo for the National Regeneration Movement party (Morena), being elected, becoming the third woman in the history of Hermosillo to be municipal president through the vote. She held the position until 8 April 2021, when she requested a leave of absence to run for reelection as mayor of Hermosillo in the 2021 Sonora State Elections, this being the first time that a mayor seeks reelection in the capital. On 11 June 2021, after losing reelection to the mayor of Hermosillo, she returns to conclude her three-year term. On 6 September 2021, the elected governor of Sonora, Alfonso Durazo, included López Cárdenas in his cabinet, making it known that she would be in charge of the state Tourism Secretariat once his government began.

During her term as municipal president of Hermosillo, she formed a citizen and equal government, the first in the history of the city. She reduced the public debt by 5% for the first time in years in the capital of Sonora. She canceled a multimillion-dollar lighting service concession and held the 2019 Pitic Festival, which broke a record by bringing together more than 60,000 people in an event with artists of quality and international stature.

López Cárdenas is seeking election as one of Sonora's senators in the 2024 Senate election, occupying the first place on the Labour Party's two-name formula.