Julia García-Valdecasas (January 29, 1944 – February 5, 2009) was a Spanish Minister of Public Administration from 2003 to 2004.

Life

García-Valdecasas was born in

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in 1944 to Francisco García-Valdecasas who was a physician and rector of the

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between 1965 and 1968 (a period with many students demonstrations). García-Valdecasas graduated at the University of Barcelona in Pharmacy in 1967 and ran her own business for ten years. In 1980 she graduated as an auditor and intervened successfully in Catalonia. She was president of the ''National Association of Auditors'' from 1990 to 1994. She represented

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from 2000 until 2006. She married Xavier Añoveros Trias de Bes and they had three children. She was appointed representative of the Central Government in Catalonia from 1996 to 2003 (first female in the position). She was appointed the first female Minister of Public Administration from 2003 to 2004 by

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. She resigned from all positions in 2006 due to

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and died in Barcelona in 2009.Dies former Minister Julia Garcia-Valdecasas
, lavanguardia.com, accessed February 2013

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