María Eugenia Campos Galván

In 2021 she was nominated by PAN as its candidate in the 2021 Mexican gubernatorial elections.

In January 2021, the Attorney General of Chihuahua accused Campos Galván of having received bribes for at least 10.3 million pesos between 2014 and 2016 from the former governor of the state César Duarte Jáquez, currently imprisoned in the United States for embezzlement of the state treasury and criminal association. It is alleged that the payments were made during the time Campos Galván was vice-coordinator of the PAN caucus in the local Congress, between 2014 and 2015, and also in 2016, when she was a candidate for the mayor of Chihuahua City for the first time. This accusation of the State Prosecutor's Office for the crime of bribery is found in criminal case 2821/2020. Copies of receipts supposedly signed by Campos Galván have been released.

On 15 April 2021 at 5:38 pm, the Eighth District Court announced to the High Court of Justice the provisional injunction in favor of Campos Galván, derived from the appeal of a constitutional challenge (writ of amparo) under number 554/2021.

On 16 April, 2021, Judge Ramón Gerardo Holguín Licón deferred the hearing against María Eugenia Campos Galván under criminal case 3022/2020 after a provisional injunction that prevents the formulation of charges pending delivery of a full copy of the investigation file.

She currently serves as vice president of Communication of the National Association of Mayors (ANAC), and from 8 March to 14 October 2020, she was president of the National Conference of Municipalities of Mexico (CONAMM), succeeding Morenista Armando Quintero Martínez.

On 8 April 2019, Campos Galván presented the project "Iluminemos Chihuahua" that contemplated the renovation of 81,500 lights in the city of Chihuahua through a 15-year tender to a private firm for around $6.2 billion pesos. In November 2019, after various requests from various civil organizations, a referendum was held that leaned in favor of the project not being carried out. At a press conference shortly after the referendum, Campos Galván announced the cancellation of the project.

In May 2019, Maru Campos was a featured speaker at the 3rd annual Smart Cities New York, which bills itself as "North America's leading global conference to harness the $1.6 trillion global smart city marketplace."

In June 2019, Campos signed a historic bilateral commission agreement with Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller. The agreement seeks to strengthen ties between the cities by creating an Albuquerque – Chihuahua protocol for economic development, tourism and cultural exchange, public safety, and education.

In October 2019, Campos presented a talk at the LAPA Georgetown forum on the role of Local Governments in the Fight Against Insecurity. The talk is available for view at the LAPA Georgetown page on Facebook.

On 17 May 2018, she requested leave from the city council to seek re-election as mayor, leaving Marco Antonio Bonilla Mendoza in her place. Campos Galván was re-elected with 203,823 votes, greater than the vote in the first election. On 8 August 2018, she resumed her activities as mayor at the end of her leave requested in May.

Campos Galván is also under investigation by the Special Prosecutor's Office for Combating Corruption for the crimes of bribery and misuse of illegal powers and powers, having allegedly bribed suppliers of her government as mayor of Chihuahua. Campos allegedly received from contractor companies of the City of Chihuahua monthly payments for more than 1.3 million pesos between 2017 and 2018, and allegedly ordered the award of contracts for cleaning and maintenance of bridges, parks and municipal gardens to five companies that, according to the audit, were linked to each other and simulated competition in the bidding processes.

In 2016 she was elected the first female municipal president of Chihuahua, being re-elected in 2018 for a second term.

In 2013, she was elected Deputy to the Chihuahua State Congress for the XVII Chihuahua State Electoral District for the LXIV Legislature for the 2013–2016 period. In 2016, she requested leave as deputy to run as PAN's candidate for municipal president of Chihuahua, being elected on 5 June 2016, thus being the first female mayor elected in Chihuahua.

On 10 October 2016, she was sworn in as mayor of Chihuahua. On 28 January 2018, Campos Galván registered as a candidate for mayor of Chihuahua in order to seek re-election in the 2018 elections.

In 2012, she ran as PAN's candidate for federal deputy for Chihuahua's VIII Federal Electoral District, but did not win the election.

In May 2011, after receiving threats, she resigned from her position for personal security reasons. Her brother, Guillermo Federico Campos Galván, who was coordinator of federal delegations in the State of Chihuahua, died in a car accident in Mexico City on 14 November 2011 after attending the funeral of Francisco Blake Mora.

In 2010, as a delegate of Liconsa, a state-owned company in the social development sector whose purpose is to contribute to the overcoming of food poverty, she denounced an ongoing diversion of resources involving the company Industrias Lácteas de Chihuahua, and a subsidiary of Spain's Reny Picot.

She was elected plurinominal federal deputy to the LX Legislature from 2006 to 2009. There, she served as secretary of the Foreign Relations Committee and member of the Federal District and Public Function committees, in addition to the Special Committee on State Reform.

She worked as an advisor to the PAN in the Congress of Chihuahua and state secretary for PAN's Youth Action in Chihuahua. In 2001, she served as an official of the General Directorate of Political Development of the Ministry of the Interior.

María Eugenia Campos Galván (born 11 September 1975), commonly known as Maru Campos, is a Mexican politician from the National Action Party (PAN) who serves as the current Governor of Chihuahua. From 2006 to 2009, she served as a deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Chihuahua.

María Eugenia Campos Galván was born on 11 September 1975. She is the daughter of Manuel Campos Cepeda, an engineer, and María Eugenia Galván Antillón (es), who was a deputy for the National Action Party (PAN) in the Mexican Congress' LVIII Legislature. Campos Galván earned a degree in Law at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and a master's degree in Latin American Studies and Government at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She earned an additional master's degree in Public Administration and Public Policy at the Mexico City campus of her alma mater.