Lucía Benigna Corpacci (born 4 December 1959) is an Argentine physician and politician. A member of the Justicialist Party, she was governor of Catamarca Province from 2011 to 2019, the first female governor in Catamarca and the fourth female governor of a province in Argentina. From 2019 to 2021 she has been a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, and since 2021 she is a National Senator representing Catamarca. Early life and career Born on 4 December 1959 in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Corpacci is of Italian and Lebanese descent. Her mother comes from the Saadi family, a prominent political family in Catamarca. She studied Primary and Secondary education at the Colegio del Carmen and San José in the capital of Catamarca. After finishing high school, she enrolled at the National University of Córdoba, graduating with a medical surgeon degree in 1982. She held an internship at the Rawson Hospital in Córdoba for a year, and later worked at he Francisco Javier Muñiz Hospital in the Buenos Aires. There she specialized in infectious diseases, and graduated as Infectologist in 1986. At Hospital Muñiz, she worked as an intensive care physician between 1984 and 1988. Returning to Catamarca, she entered the first cohort of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the National University of Catamarca, where she completed a master's degree in endemic diseases. Between 1988 and 2000, she worked in the Infectology Service of the Hospital Interzonal San Juan Bautista, where she assumes the headship. At the same time, she performs functions in the areas of Guard and the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. In 1998, she won by academic contest the title of the Chair of Microbiology of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the National University of Catamarca. During 2002, she was in charge of the Centro Único de Referencia (CUR), which operates at the San Juan Bautista Interzonal Hospital. It is the only center dedicated to the treatment and study of AIDS in the province. Later she is summoned to exercise the direction of the Unit of Management 24, Delegation Catamarca of PAMI, task that fulfills between the years 2003 and 2005. Political career In 2005, she was appointed by the National Government as Director of the Reference Center of the Ministry of Social Development in Catamarca, task which she carried out until 2007. In 2005, she was a national deputy candidate in