Jacquin Strouss Lucena

Jacquin Desiree Strouss Lucena
First Lady of Colombia
In office 7 August 1994 – 7 August 1998
Preceded by	Ana Milena Muñoz Gómez
Succeeded by	Nohra Puyana Bickenbach
Personal details
Born	Jacquin Desiree Strouss Lucena (1953-02-22) 22 February 1953 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Guillermo García Ocampo (divorced) Ernesto Samper Pizano (1979-present)
Children	Felipe Samper Strouss Miguel Samper Strouss
Alma mater	University of the Andes (BEc, 1976) Columbia University (MA)
Profession	Economist

Jacquin Desiree Strouss Lucena (born 22 February 1953) is the wife of the 37th President of Colombia, Ernesto Samper Pizano, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1994 to 1998.

Personal life

Jacquin Desiree was born on 22 February 1953 to Herbert S. Strouss and María Inés Lucena. Her father was a German American Special Forces pilot who perished in Laos during the Laotian Civil War when his plane was gunned down while delivering supplies to American troops; she was 9 years old at the time. She attended Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogotá where she finished her primary studies, and later graduated from Colegio La Asunción. She is an alumna of the University of the Andes where she obtained a degree in Economics in 1976; she later attended Columbia University where she obtained a Master's degree in Humanities.

She was first married to Guillermo García Ocampo, better known as Billy Pontoni, but later divorced. She remarried Ernesto Samper Pizano on 16 June 1979. Ernesto and Jacquin have two children: Felipe and Miguel.