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Minerva Cordero is a Puerto Rican mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is also the university's associate dean of academic affairs.

Professional career
Cordero received her PhD from the University of Iowa in 1989. She taught at Texas Tech University until 2011, when she joined the faculty at Arlington. She studies finite geometry. Cordero served as the Mathematical Association of America's Governor-at-Large for Minority Interests from 2008 to 2011. Her most cited work is A survey of finite semifields.

Personal life
Cordero's husband, James Epperson, is also a professor at Arlington. They have two sons. Her sister, Olga Cordero Braña, is also a mathematics professor, and in 2002 taught at the University of Hawaii.