Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí "Texas' First Cattle Queen," in Roots by the River (Mission, Texas: Border Kingdom, 1978). Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí (1752–1803) was a rancher known as the first "cattle queen" of Texas. She was born in Mexico, in what is now known as Tamaulipas. Her parents, Juan José de Hinojosa and María Antonia Inés Ballí de Benavides, were Spanish aristocrats who had priority rights to extensive land grants and public offices because they were Primitive Settlers. In 1767 her family moved to Reynosa, where her father had been appointed as alcade. Rosa married José María Ballí,
Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles de Obras y Servicios Públicos (BANOBRAS), the development bank for infrastructure. After this, he became Secretary of Energy in the Cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo where he was also President of the Board of several governmental companies such as PEMEX, CFE and LyFC. Then he was appointed Mexican Ambassador to the United States from October 1997 to November 2000. In December 2006, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa named Reyes Heroles as Director-General of PEMEX. On September 8, 2009, he was relieved from this position. Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles Jesús Federico Reyes-Heroles González Garza is a Mexican economist and politician. He is a