Elisa Godínez Gómez de Batista (née Godínez Gómez; December 2, 1904[1][2] – June 19, 1993) was the First Lady of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 as the first wife of Cuban then-president (later dictator) Fulgencio Batista.

Godínez was born in a small farmhouse in the village of Vereda Nueva in Havana Province, as one of nine children born to Salustiano Godínez y Córdoba and Concepción Gómez y Acosta.

[2][4][3] Godínez married her second husband, Máximo Rodríguez, a former member of the Cuban Congress, and they immigrated to the United States in 1959, settling in Miami, Florida.

[2][3] Rodríguez died in 1962, and Godínez resided in Miami until her death there on June 19, 1993,[3][4] at age 88.

[2] One of her grandsons (the son of Elisa Aleida Batista) is Raoul G. Cantero III, a Justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 2002 to 2008.