Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico's first female president.  When all is counted, she will get around 60% of the votes cast.  Sheinbaum was former mayor of Mexico City and will serve one six-year term beginning on October 1.  She is closely aligned with outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and will continue the favorable relationship with the U.S. Sheinbaum : Is 61 years old, and was born in Mexico City.   Her paternal Ashkenazi grandparents emigrated from Lithuania in the 1920's, while her maternal Sephardic grandparents came from Sofia, Bulgaria in the early 140's to escape the Holocaust.   Her mother is a biologist, while her father is a chemical engineer, like me.  Her brother Julio is a physicist. Her husband, Carlos Imaz, was a tenured Stanford University professor, but they separated in 2016 with a daughter. She will soon marry Jesús Maria Tarriba Unger. Has a PhD in energy engineering, and, as an academic, has authored over 100 articles, publishing two