title: Carolina Mejía de Garrigó
text: # Carolina Mejía de Garrigó
  
  Rosa Carolina Mejía Gómez de Garrigó (born 28 March 1969) is a Dominican politician, economist, and businesswoman. She is the current mayor of Distrito Nacional, the first woman to assume the position.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Rosa Carolina Mejía Gómez was born in Santiago de los Caballeros on 28 March 1969 to Hipólito Mejía, agronomist and President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004, and Rosa Gómez Arias, the former First Lady of the Dominican Republic. Carolina has 2 brothers and 1 sister.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  She is married to Juan Antonio Garrigó Lefeld, insurance and brokerage businessman of Catalan and German descent; they have 3 children: Juan de Jesús, Diego José, and Isabel Carolina Garrigó Mejía.
  
  ## Political life
  
  In the early 2000s she was member of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic’s Board. In 2016 she became the vice presidential candidate of the Modern Revolutionary Party.
  
  Mejía de Garrigó was elected General Secretary of her party in the primary elections held on 18 March 2018, she took office on 14 June 2018.
  
  On 24 April 2020 Mejía took office as mayor of Santo Domingo, becoming the first woman to ever lead the Dominican Republic capital city.
  
  