Claudia Rodríguez de Castellanos
Emma Claudia Castellanos | |
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 Official portrait, 2018 | |
| Senator of Colombia | |
| In office July 20, 2018 – July 20, 2022 | |
| In office July 20, 2006 – July 20, 2010 | |
| In office December 12, 1991 – July 20, 1994 | |
| Ambassador of Colombia to Brazil | |
| In office October 6, 2004 – May 30, 2005 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe |
| Preceded by | Jorge Garavito |
| Succeeded by | Mario Galofre Cano |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Claudia Yadira Inés Rodríguez Almanza May 4, 1960 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Political party | Social Party of National Unity (2010-present) |
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| Education | Sergio Arboleda University |
| Alma mater | La Gran Colombia University (BL) |
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Emma Claudia Castellanos[1] (née Rodríguez Almanza;[a] born May 4, 1960) is a Colombian lawyer, evangelical pastor and politician who served as a Senator of Colombia from 1991 to 1994, from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2018 to 2022 and as Ambassador of Colombia to Brazil from 2004 to 2005 under President Álvaro Uribe.
Castellanos studied law at La Gran Colombia University and later earned a specialization in Constitutional Law from Sergio Arboleda University. She is a co-founder of the International Charismatic Mission Church, of which she is pastor with her husband. Castellanos has been one of the most prominent Christian leaders in Colombian politics, founding the National Christian Party.[2]
Early life
[edit]Claudia Yadira Inés Rodríguez Almanza[b] was born on May 4, 1960, in Bogotá, D.C., to Luis Alfonso Rodríguez and Yolanda Almanza. She met César Castellanos in 1980 during a meeting of Evangelical Churches. She studied law at La Gran Colombia University and later Legislative Technique Studies at the School of Public Administration. In 1983, she obtained a specialization in Constitutional Law from Sergio Arboleda University.
Political career
[edit]Castellanos has been described as one of Colombia's most experienced politicians. Her political career began in 1989 when, together with her husband, she founded the National Christian Party, with which she would later launch her presidential campaign in 1990 and for which she would be elected Senator during the 1991 Constituent Assembly of Colombia under the name of the Christian Union.[2] In 2006, the party was closed down after losing its legal status, preventing her from obtaining its endorsement for her campaign for Mayor of Bogotá. She received endorsement from the Radical Change Party, a party she would remain in until 2010, when she officially joined the Social Party of National Unity, of which she is currently a member.[3][4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Name prior to her marriage: Claudia Yadira Inés Rodríguez Almanza, formerly Claudia Rodríguez de Castellanos, later change to Emma Claudia Castellanos her current name.
- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Almanza.
References
[edit]- ^ "Emma Claudia Castellanos". Cuestion Pública.
- ^ a b "¿Conveniente o no la aprobación de la ampliación del cupo de endeudamiento?: senadora Emma Claudia Castellanos". 2020.
- ^ Tiempo, Redacción El (1997-05-26). "ATENTADO CONTRA EX SENADORA". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- ^ "Cristianos, como el hijo pródigo, vuelven a Cambio Radical". El Colombiano (in European Spanish). 2017-12-07. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
External links
[edit]- Rodríguez de Castellanos, Claudia (2005). La Mujer en el Ministerio (in Spanish). Hollywood, FL: G12 Editores. ISBN 9781932285598. OCLC 792930797.
- Living people
- 1960 births
- Politicians from Bogotá
- Colombian evangelicals
- Colombian women lawyers
- Colombian women in politics
- 21st-century Colombian lawyers
- 21st-century Colombian women lawyers
- 21st-century Colombian politicians
- 21st-century Colombian women politicians
- Social Party of National Unity politicians
- Members of the Senate of Colombia
- Colombian women ambassadors
- Ambassadors of Colombia to Brazil
- Colombian anti-communists