Loyola de Palacio

The Most Excellent Loyola de Palacio
de Palacio in 1996
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
In office 6 May 1996 – 30 April 1999
Monarch	H.M. Don Juan Carlos I
Prime Minister	José María Aznar López
Preceded by	Luis María Atienza
Succeeded by	Jesús Posada
Member of the Senate
In office 22 June 1986 – 28 October 1989
Constituency	Segovia
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 28 October 1989 – 17 July 1999
Constituency	Segovia
Vice-President of the European Commission European Commissioner for Parliamentary Relations, Transport and Energy
In office 16 September 1999 – 21 November 2004
President	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Erkki Liikanen (Parliamentary Relations) Neil Kinnock (Transport) Christos Papoutsis (Energy)
Succeeded by	Siim Kallas (Parliamentary Relations) Jacques Barrot (Transport) Andris Piebalgs (Energy)
Personal details
Born	Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi (1950-09-16)16 September 1950 Madrid, Spain
Died	13 December 2006(2006-12-13) (aged 56) Madrid, Spain
Political party	People's Party

Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi (16 September 1950 – 13 December 2006) was a Spanish politician. She was among the first women to rise to political prominence in Spain during the early years of reconstituted democracy. She was a minister in the Spanish government from 1996 to 1998 (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food), and a member of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004.