Eeileen Romero

At the end of 2017, Romero announced her candidacy for the national post of deputy for the legislative and municipal elections. In the elections, held 4 March 2018, she received 20,718 votes.

Since 2011, she served as representative of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of El Salvador in the Technical Committee of the National Council for Comprehensive Attention to Persons with Disabilities (CONAIPD).

In 2005, Romero represented El Salvador at the United Nations International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New York City.

In 2004, she received her law degree from the Universidad Cristiana de las Asambleas de Dios (Christian University of the Assemblies of God) and became an attorney. The Supreme Court of Justice appointed her as a Lawyer of the Republic of El Salvador in 2008, a role she held until her death.

Due to El Salvador's lack of support for people with any type of physical disability, Romero did not begin her primary school studies until the age of 13. She persisted, completing her General Baccalaureate degree in 1998 at the Colegio Liceo Cristiano Reverendo Juan Bueno Central in San Salvador.

Eeileen Auxiliadora Romero Valle (3 February 1974 – 25 October 2021) was a Salvadoran lawyer, politician and public servant. A member of the National Coalition Party, she served in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 2018 to 2021.

Eeileen Romero was born on 3 February 1974 in the San Salvador suburb of Mejicanos. Her father, Antonio Romero Diaz, was a merchant. Born with seven bone fractures, she lived with the effects of the brittle bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta throughout her life and used a wheelchair for mobility.