Mireille Roccatti
Mexican politician
Mireille Roccatti Velásquez (born in Monterrey, Nuevo León) is a Mexican scholar and jurist who served as the first female president of the country's National Human Rights Commission.
Life
Roccatti was born in Mexico to a French immigrant named Alberto Roccatti Rousseau. He was an engineer and one of the first professors at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies (Tec de Monterrey) after it was founded. Her mother was also a professor at the same school. This led to her studying her first bachelor's degree at the institution along with her brothers and sisters. After finishing this degree, she decided to change course and study law, first a bachelors at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, followed her masters and doctorate at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
She is fluent in four languages.
After finishing her education, she began a career in the judiciary, then followed by position in government and academia.
She married Francis Terrein, which whom she had three children Nadine, Didier and Fabrice. In 1999, she lost her husband in a car accident in San Luis Potosí and in 2012, her youngest son died unexpectedly from a heart attack at age 33.
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