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from 1983 to 1987. She also served as Secretary of Housing and Environmental Structuring of Argentina from 1987 to 1989, during the presidency of

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, and as a member of the 1994 Constituent Assembly. Elected in the

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(UCR) ticket alongside

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, Roulet was the first woman to serve as vice governor and the first woman elected in a gubernatorial ticket of any Argentine province. No other woman would hold that office until 1999, when Mercedes Oviedo was elected Vice Governor of

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. Roulet was born in 1932 in Juan Nepomuceno Fernández, a small town in the

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of Buenos Aires Province. She studied architecture at the

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Faculty of Architecture and Design, graduating in 1957. She then went on to earn a degree on Developmental Social Sciences from the

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. She was married to Jorge Esteban Roulet (1928–1987), an engineer and UCR activist who was dean of the University of Buenos Aires

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in 1974.

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