Mirtha Arce

Mirtha Arce
Official portrait, 2018
Senator for Tarija
In office 18 January 2015 – 3 November 2020
Substitute	Fernando Campero
Preceded by	Marcelo Antezana
Succeeded by	Gladys Alarcón
Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Tarija
Substitute
In office 25 January 2010 – 14 July 2014
Deputy	Adrián Oliva [es]
Preceded by	Rodolfo Vargas
Succeeded by	Lorena Gareca
Constituency	Party list
Personal details
Born	Mirtha Natividad Arce Camacho (1963-12-25) 25 December 1963 (age 60) Tarija, Bolivia
Alma mater	Marshal Sucre Normal School [es] Juan Misael Saracho University [es]
Occupation	Educator lawyer politician
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Mirtha Natividad Arce Camacho (born 25 December 1963) is a Bolivian academic, lawyer, and politician who served as senator for Tarija from 2015 to 2020.

Arce got her political start in student leadership before developing her career in academia and women's rights activism. She held multiple executive positions in women's rights–related organizations in Tarija, including presiding over the Association of Women Lawyers and the Association of Women University Professionals. Between 2002 and 2008, she held law-related public service roles at local and departmental levels, including serving as legal director of the Departmental Road Service of Tarija.

In 2009, Arce was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, accompanying Adrián Oliva [es] as his substitute from 2010 to 2014 when she resigned to launch a successful bid for a seat in the Senate. Though elected as part of the Democratic Unity coalition, Arce became estranged from the bloc partway through her term and operated as an independent from then on. In 2021, she contested the Tarija governorship, becoming the first woman nominee in the department's electoral history. However, she came in a distant fourth place at the ballot box.