Judith Forstmann

{{Short description|Argentine politician (1945–2009)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Selva Judith Forstmann | image = | office = [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] | party = [[Justicialist Party]] | term_start = 14 August 2006 | term_end = 10 April 2009 | constituency = [[Santa Cruz Province, Argentina|Santa Cruz]] | preceded = [[Alicia Kirchner]] | succeeded = [[Jorge Banicevich]] | birth_date = 1945 | birth_place = | death_date = 10 April 2009 | death_place = [[Santa Cruz Province, Argentina|Santa Cruz Province]] | spouse = Family= Wim Forstmann, Tomas Forstmann, Jeremias Forstmann | profession = | website = }} '''Selva Judit Forstmann''' (1945 - 10 April 2009) was an [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[Justicialist Party]] politician. She sat in the [[Argentine Senate]] representing [[Santa Cruz Province, Argentina|Santa Cruz Province]] in the majority block of the [[Front for Victory]].

Forstmann was educated in [[Buenos Aires]] and [[La Plata]]. She moved to the oil town [[Caleta Olivia]] in 1973 and worked locally in education and the arts. She became a city councillor in 1991.

In 1993 Forstmann was elected to the provincial legislature of Santa Cruz. She was re-elected in 1997, 1999 and 2003. In the Santa Cruz Chamber of Deputies she was vice-president of the Justicialist Party block from 1995, 2nd vice-president of the Chamber from 1999 and 1st vice-president from 2006. Due to various resignations and vacancies, she was acting President of the Chamber that year, and as a consequence was de facto vice-governor of the province. She was appointed to the national Senate in 2007 to fill the vacancy left since [[Alicia Kirchner]] left to join the government of President [[Néstor Kirchner]] in August 2006.

On 10 April 2009, Forstmann and her husband were travelling in a [[four-wheel drive]] in Santa Cruz with a fishing guide. The car was swept away by the current of the [[river Barrancosa]] . The two men were saved but Forstmann was dragged away and was found dead the next morning.<ref>[http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/04/11/um/m-01895789.htm Falleció en Santa Cruz la senadora nacional del FPV] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414054832/http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/04/11/um/m-01895789.htm |date=2009-04-14 }}, ''[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]]'', 11 April 2009.</ref>

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110531183128/http://www.senado.gov.ar/web/senadores/biografia.php?id_sena=395 Senate profile]

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