Teresita Quintela

Infobox Senator | name=Teresita Quintela
nationality=Argentine


office=Argentine Senator
from La Rioja Province
party=Justicialist Party
term_start=10 December 2005
term_end=
preceded=
succeeded=
date of birth=birth date and age|1950|01|26
place of birth= La Rioja
dead=alive
date of death=
place of death=
spouse=
religion=
profession=Social worker
website=

Teresa Nicolasa Quintela (b. 26 January 1950, La Rioja) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She sits in the Argentine Senate representing La Rioja Province in the majority block of the Front for Victory.

Quintela qualified as a social worker in 1975 from the National University of Córdoba and gained a social services license from the same university in 1983. She further studied management and social policy at the University of Mendoza in 1987. She held various social work and administrative roles in La Rioja.

In 1995 Quintela was elected as a La Rioja city councillor, but soon joined the provincial government as Secretary of State for social development until 1998. In 2001 she was elected to the provincial legislature and in 2005 was elected a Senator. She is President of the Municipal Affairs Committee.

Quintela's brother Ricardo Quintela is Mayor of La Rioja.

External links

* [http://www.senado.gov.ar/web/senadores/biografia.php?id_sena=358 Senate profile]
* [http://teresitaquintela.net/ Official website]

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