title: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz
text: Héctor Israel Ortiz Ortiz (born 28 July 1950 in Oaxaca) 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 a professor of law at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (UAT) since 1974. Ortiz also 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 (1991 to 1994) and the LVIII Legislatures. In 2002 he was elected mayor of Tlaxcala.   
      
  Ortiz joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) 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 National Action Party (PAN) invitation 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.
  
  See also
  List of Mexican state governors
  
  References
  
  External links
   Héctor Ortiz at the Tlaxcala.gob website
  
     
     
  
  1950 births
  Living people
  Politicians from Oaxaca
  20th-century Mexican lawyers
  National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
  Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
  Municipal presidents in Tlaxcala
  National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
  Governors of Tlaxcala
  Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
  20th-century Mexican politicians
  21st-century Mexican politicians
  Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala
  Heads of universities and colleges in Mexico
  People from Oaxaca City
  Deputies of the LVIII Legislature of Mexico