Ismael Hernández

Ismael Alfredo Hernández Deras (born Victoria de Durango, February 20, 1964) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as Governor of the State of Durango from September 15, 2004 to September 14, 2010.

He studied at the ESIMA (Escuela Secundaria Ignacio Manuel Altamirano) in the capital, Durango.

He received an accounting degree from the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, where he was a student leader.

From 1989 until 1992, he was president of the Revolutionary Juvenile Front in Durango, and at the same time a local member of the Chamber of Deputies.

From 1995 until 1998 he was Secretary General of the "Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Populares en Durango" and was elected a state senator between 1997 and 2000.