[1] Clementina Ródenas studied the Bachillerato at the Requena Institute and then went on to study Economics and Business Administration at the University of Valencia in 1966 and to obtain a doctorate in Economics in 1978, making her the first woman to obtain a doctorate at that university.

In 1975 she joined the Partit Socialista del País Valencià and the Unión General de Trabajadores, being a member of the PSPV-PSOE accounts committee (the result of the integration of the PSPV into the PSOE in 1978) from 1979 to 1985.

[2] Between 1983 and 1989 she was a councillor for the Treasury and the first deputy mayor in the Valencia City Council, in the municipal team presided over by her party colleague Ricard Pérez Casado.

[1] Ródenas was the socialist candidate in the 1991 municipal elections, winning with 45,000 votes difference over her most direct rival, Rita Barberá of the Partido Popular.

However, she did not obtain an absolute majority (she won 13 of the 33 councillors) and thanks to the pacts between the Partido Popular and Unión Valenciana Barberá was elected mayor.