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WOMEN'S DIVISION
1959
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
1625 EYE STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON 6, D. C.
WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
The advances of women in winning appointments to high State and Territorial
Government positions - and the scope of their responsibilities in these posts -
are truly noteworthy.
Women hold top appointive posts in every State of the union, except Alaska,
having been named to these positions by Governors or by key State adminis-
tration officials. They serve in Governors' Cabinets, as chiefs and deputy
chiefs of departments, as members of commissions on public welfare, public
utilities, employment security, fiscal affairs, public personnel, education.
They serve as judges, clerks of courts, and in a variety of other appointive
judicial posts.
Following is a list by State of 875 women, showing their appointive positions,
based on currently available information. It is important to note that this survey
DOES NOT LIST ALL WOMEN APPOINTIVE OFFICE-HOLDERS or cover every
scope of women's work. It does endeavor to collate as much information as the
States have contributed on the character of work in which women officials are
engaged, and the heavier responsibilities and opportunities being extended to
them. Political affiliations, when available, are indicated by (R) and (D).
ALABAMA (5)
State Board of Pardons and Parcles - Mrs. Frances R. Robinson (D)
Public Library Service - Emily Wheelock Reed, Director (D)
Bureau of Public Assistance - Elizabeth Bryan
Bureau of Child Welfare - Mrs. Edward Gresham, Director
Real Estate Board - Mrs. Mary J. Thompson, Executive Secretary
ARIZONA (4)
Child Welfare Department - Ann Bracken, Supervisor
Department of Library & Archives - Mrs. Alice B. Good, Director
Office of Auditor - Mrs. Jewel W. Jordon, Auditor
Public Assistance & Services - Mrs. Christine Small, Director
ARKANSAS (4)
Arkansas Commerce Commission Kay Matthews, Commissioner
State Librarian - Mrs. Karl Neal
Director of Child Welfare Ruth Johnston
Director of School Lunch Program - Ruth Powell
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
CALIFORNIA (133)
Deputy Legislative Counsel - Barbara Cochrane Calais, Virginia Stephens,
Cocker, Ann Mackey, Rose Woods
Deputy Attorney General - Doris H. Maier, Gail A. Strader, Elizabeth
Palmer, Miriam E. Wolff, Alberta Gattone, Joan D. Gross, Bonnie L.
Hansen, Elizabeth Miller
Department of Education Jane Hood, Mrs. Dorothy M. Schnell, Miss Helen
Heffernan, Bernece McCrary
Division of Libraries - Mrs. Carma R. Zimmerman, Mrs. Phyllis I. Dalton,
Beulah Mumm, Dorothy M. Sinclair, Mary K. Sanders, Margaret E.
Preston, Mary Schell, Constance E. Lee, Amelia M. White, Barbara
Gray Boyd, Arlene Hope, Mrs. Virginia Simpson, Olive Swain, Mrs. Alicia
M. Hook, Edith A. Irwin
School for Cerebral-Palsied Children - Melba M. Miller, Superintendent
State Board of Education - Mrs. Seymour Mathiesen, Mrs. Eva. C. Noland,
Dr. Mabel E. Kinney
State Board of Equalization - Shirley Filiatrault, Deputy, 4th District
Housing Commission - Gail Merrit Jobe, Commissioner
Division of Labor Law Enforcement - Pauline Nightingale
Industrial Welfare Commission - Mrs. Frances Larsen, Mrs. Mae Stoneman,
Miss Virginia Allee, Ruth H. Krause, Helen Nelson
Department of Mental Hygiene -Mrs. Gertrude Deinstadt, Laverne Owens,
Katharine M. Steele, Dr. Mary A. Gorton,
Citizens' Advisory Committee on Aging - Mrs. Edna Bonn Russell, Miss
Barbara Rosien, Mrs. Ann Boyd
Department of Investment - Nora M. Collins
Military Department - Kay Jordan
Department of Natural Resources - Mrs. Gertrude G. Harriman
Mount San Jacinto Winter Park Authority - Gwynn Wilson
Department of Professional and Vocational Standards - Mrs. Ruth Palmer,
Mrs. Beryl C. Reinhardt, Mrs. Helen M. Virga, Mrs. Ella K. Mays,
Mrs. Eunice Evans, Mrs. Pearle Miller, Mrs. Ruth Bronson Puckett,
Mrs. Dorothy Scott, Maas Ellen Larsen, Nancy Knick, Veula Faye
Mitchell, Grace Freudenthal, Mrs. Edith Chambers, Sister M. DePaul
Oberti, Esther A. Controy, Ramona Hopkins, Helen Jane Hancock,
Henrietta Villaescusa, Mrs. Gertrude Baker, Katherine Brown Becker,
Magdalen Dennis, Kathryn Cafferty, R. N., Sister M. Rebecca, Gertrude
Craddock, Mildred L. Brown, Elizabeth Lingruen, Mrs. Evelyn McIntyre,
Nina B. Craft, Mrs. Ruth B. Seeley, Mrs. Hazel Lorenz, Mrs. Alice
McLarney, Mrs. Pearl Sievers, Mrs. Jeanette Broom, Miss Maryellen
Wood
Department of Public Health - Mrs. P. D. Bevil, Ann W. Haynes, Irma
West, Marcia Hays, Edna J. Brandt, Helen E. Walsh, Esther C. Spencer,
Sister Mary Philippa, Sister M. Laurencita
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
CALIFORNIA (Continued)
Department of Public Works - Mrs. J. Frank Snowden, Isabel Nessler
Department of Motor Vehicles - Lillian Hart, Elizabeth M. Onstott,
June Perkins
Department of California Highway Patrol - Gladys Warner
Office of Regents, University of California - Mrs. Dorothy B. Chandler,
Mrs. Catherine Hearst, Marjorie J. Woolman
California Horse Racing Board - Miss Claire Douglass, Secretary
Youth Authority - Evelyn Schilling, Iris Walden, Miss Mary B. Perry,
Miss Helen L. Coad, Mrs. Beatrice D. Dolan, Miss May J. Buwalda
California Recreation Commission - Mrs. Rollin Brown, Mrs. Bartlett
B. Heard
Department of Corrections . Miss Alma Holzschuh, Mrs. Anne Humphreys,
Mrs. Doris Kingsley, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Lewis, Mrs. Myrtle Wallace,
Mrs. Mildred M. Prince, Mrs. Beulah K. Spencer
Department of Social Welfare Mrs. George H. Bowman, Mrs. Jackson W.
Chance, Mrs. Carmen Warschaw, Lucile Kennedy, Elizabeth MacLatchie,
Louise Kennedy
California State Fair and Exposition Mrs. Florence M. Doe
Commission on Metropolitan Area Problems Mrs. Rudd Brown
State Allocation Board - Dorothy M. Donohoe
Board of Directors of 29th District Agricultural Association - Mrs.
Melissa C. Trask
Department of Industrial Relations - Mrs. Alta Clifford Potter
COLORADO (19)
Commission on Alcoholism - Mrs. Frona McCambridge
Board of Examiners in the Basic Sciences - Dr. Esther B. Starks
State Board of Cosmetology - Izetta Wright, Helen M. Scott, Louise Weldin,
State Board of Nurse Examiners - Cecelia Gillespie, Mrs. Leora Dick,
Sister Maureen Tracy, Mrs. Irene E. Bainton, Miss Marguerite
Paetznick, Sister Beatrix Carey
State Board of Practical Nurse Examiners - Mrs. Mary Wickersham, Mrs.
Doris L. Allen, Mrs. Edith A, Wilson
State Board of Pharmacy - Mrs. Edna W. Risch
Representative Member of Public Institutional Advisory Board - Mrs.
Rena Mary Taylor
Services for the Blind - Mrs. Kathryn C. Barkausen
State Archivist - Dolores C. Renze
State Historian - Agnes V. right Spring
CONNECTICUT (6)
Commissioner of New London County - Dorothy H. Satti (D)
Fortified Rights Commission - Gertrude P. O'Donnell (D)
School Lunch & Nutrition. - Edith C. Blakeley, Supervisor
Justima
State Library - Doris Cook, Archivist
BUL
UNION
Public Services Division - Virginia A. Knox, Chief
Bureau of Libraries Helen Ridgway, Director
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
DELAWARE (89)
Assistant Secretary of State - Margaret D. Tomlinson, (R)
Legislative Reference Bureau. - Maxine Schulz, Assistant Director
Delaware National Guard Lt. Col. Dorothy Millman Richardson
Delaware Archaeological Board - Mrs. Roberta O. McClearnen
Delaware Commission for the Blind - Mrs. Irene duPont, Mrs. James E.
Marvel, Mrs. James R. Morford, Mrs. Henry V.P. Wilson
Budget Commission - - Mrs. Lillian I. Martin
State Building and Grounds Commission - Mrs. Jessica I. Terry
Delaware Commission on Children and Youth - Miss Elizabeth S. Townsend,,
Ruth M. Laws, Mrs. Helen Von Dreele, Marguerite H. Burnett, Mrs.
Madaline E. Buchanan
State Board of Chiropody Examiners - Dr. Doris R. Barnes
Civil Defense Advisory Council - Ruth M. Cann, Helen Faust, Bessie
Peterson, Constance Robbins, Dorothy J. Till
Board of Trustees, Delaware State College - Mrs. Thelma T. Young, Mrs.
Edmund N. Carpenter
Board of Ditch Commissioners - Frances E. Thomas
State Board of Education - Marvel O. Watson, Mrs. Madaline E. Buchanan
State Director of Art Education - Edith L. Mitchell
State Director of Teacher Education & Professional Standards Dr. Elizabeth
C. Lloyd
State Director of Americanization & Adult Education - Marguerite H. Burnett
State Director of Service Bureau for Foreign-born Residents - Grace B. Stone
State Director of Home Economics Education Dr. L. Ann Buntin
State Director of School Lunch Program - Martha Bonar
Advisory Committee on Needs of Exceptional Children - Elizabeth C. Elliott,
Phyllis Horsey, Naomi Frost
New Castle Historic Buildings Commission - Mrs. J. Thomas Robinson,
Phyllis Horsey
Governor's Fire Prevention Council - Mrs. Estella Baker, Mrs. Virginia
Butts, Mrs. Alice M. King, Mrs. Eva. Raughley, Mrs. Alberta Smith
State Board of Health - Mrs. Edith Kendall, Mrs. Caroline Keene, Mrs.
Eva N. Scotton
Division of Public Health Nursing - Mary M. Klaes, Director
Division of Oral Hygiene - Margaret H. Jeffreys, Director
State Board of Housing - Mrs. F. Audrey Piper
Labor Commission of Delaware - Mrs. Pearl Herlihy, Marguerite Postles
Lewes Memorial Commission - Dora M. Furniss, Mrs. Robert Hunter Orr,
Mrs. D. Anthony Potter
Library Commission for the State of Delaware - Mrs. Gertrude L. Slaybaugh,
Mrs. Elise Dickey, Mrs. Florence M. Taylor, Mrs. Myrtha Calhoun,
Mrs. William E. Ferguson, Mrs. Helen Jernee, Mrs. Virginia F. K.
Messick
Board on Mental Health Training & Research - Christine J. B. Dobbs,
Valerie Boggs
Board of Examiners of Graduate Nurses - Alice Cook, R. N., Lillian G.
Riley, R. N., Ada E. Moratti, R. N., Sara F. Gibson, R.N.
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
DELAWARE (Continued)
State Board of Examiners in Optometry - Dr. Elizabeth F. Phillips
State Park Commission - Penelope L. Fox
State Examining Board of Physical Therapists - Miss Carolyn Heil, Eleanor
J. Bader
Portrait Commission - Mrs. Julia Tallman, Mrs. Mabel L. Ridgely
Public Archives Commission - Mrs. Mabel L. Ridgely, Mrs. Eleanor B.
Cooch, Mrs. Nan F. Campbell
Board of Trustees, University of Delaware - Mrs. Charles P. Townsend,
Mrs. Albert W. James
State Board of Welfare - Mrs. Mildren Johnson Jones, Mrs. Naomi
Lofland, Mrs. Camille W. Jacobs
Bureau of Social Services - Miss E. Kathryn Pennypacker
State Welfare Home & Hospital for the Chronically Ill at Smyrna - Mrs.
Esther Pratt
Woods Haven School for Girls, Board - Mrs. Frances B. Scott, Mrs. Eleanor
S. Paradee, Miss Mary Dewees
Youth Services Commission of Delaware ⑉ Mrs. Martin A. Klaver, Mrs.
Ruth R. Cooch
Bridge House State Detention Home for Juveniles - Mrs. Margaret Forsyth
The Kruse School - Mrs. Dorothy Banton
FLORIDA (98)
Members District Board of Social Welfare, 1st District - Mrs. Hugh Adams,
Mrs. Cebelle Meigs, Mrs. B. D. Alford, Mrs. Henry E. McLaughlin,
Mrs. Gwendolyn B. Rogers, Mrs. W. N. Faircloth, Myrtle W. Childers,
Mrs. Wallace McLeod, Mrs. Lucille Fuqua, Mrs. J. A. Stephens, Mrs.
T. E. Taylor, Mrs. Van H. Priest, Mrs. Virginia Engstrom, Mrs.
Jennie Louque, Mrs. Jean Colbert, Mrs. John M. Phillips, Mrs. W.A.
McMullen, Mrs. William Johnstone, Mrs. Thelma Sheffield, Mary Belle
Rogers, Wilma Morris, Mrs. William Knabb, Mrs. O. F. Alford, Mrs.
J. C. Harris, Sara George Geiger, Bessie M. Burns, Mrs. H.W. Fish-
ler, Laurie A. Browning, Mrs. Thomas W. Oliver, Mrs. Ray V. Wilson,
Mrs. Alice Cason, Mrs. Paul F. Betzold, Mrs. Alvin Leitman, Mrs.
John C. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. James L. Estes, Mrs. Joe P. Brown, Mrs.
Fred C. Sikes, Mrs. May D. Durrance, Muriel Hirsch Pick, Helen R.
Tedder, Mrs. T. Noble Brown, Mrs. R.F.E. Cooke, Mrs. Bess O'Neill,
Jessie Mae Boring, Tessie Lee Fisher, Mrs. L. Wallace Riggins, Mrs.
W. A. Pattishall, Mrs. P. K. Weaver, Mrs. Mary Holler
School Lunch Program - Thelma Flanagan, Supervisor
State Library - Verna R. Nistendirk, Dorothy Dodd
Court Reporter - Mrs. Weba Paul, Frances Thigpen, Esther K. Brahaney,
Loretta Perdue, Mrs. Connie Luebke, Miss Elva Crumpton, Maude B.
Clingan, Evelyn Higgs, Mrs. M. Bama Conner, Dolores L. Gard,
SECURITY
Marilyn Cleveland Langford, Mrs. Rosie Sclafani, Mrs. Marguerite
C. Sapp, Zola B. Folkes, Mrs. Nelie P. Heath, Betty Gaskins Owens,
FRIEN
Mrs. Louisa Parks, Mrs. Joe M. Stiles, Louise Pencke, Marguerite
Klingmeyer, Mrs. Virginia Toffaletti
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
FLORIDA (Continued)
Clerk of Court - Kathleen L. Hartley
Judge, Juvenile Court, Monroe County Mrs. Eva Warner Gibson
Judge, Small Claims Court, Madison County - Alice C. Williams
State Board of Examiners in the Basic Science - Mary Noka Hood
Board of Beauty Culture Examiners - Gladys Moore
Florida Children's Commission - Mrs. Sydney Weintraub, Mrs. Hamilton
Hunt, Mrs. Jack Pearce Ashmore, Sr., Mrs. Ellen Whiteside, Mrs. J.L.
McCaffrey, Mrs. Irene L. Williams, Mrs. Clyde H. Johnson, Edna S.
Williams
Florida Board of Massage - Agnes P. Snedecar
Council on Mental Health - Mrs. Anne S. Gautier, Gwendolyn B. Rogers,
Sonia L. King,
State Motor Vehicle Commission Mrs. Ina S. Thompson
Florida State Bcard of Nursing. - Jewel Laramore, Thelma Beck, Mrs. Irene
F. Workman, Hazel M. Peeples, Virginia Albaugh, Timoxena Sloan,
Orpha Russell
GEORGIA (9)
Confederate Pension and Record Department. Miss Lillian Henderson,
Director
Assistant State Librarian - Miss Vera Jameson
State Pardon and Parole Board - Mrs. Rebecca L. Garrett
Archives & Historical Department Mrs. Mary G. Bryan, Director
Corporation Clerk Mrs. Louise Buchanan
Division of School Lunch Programs - Eleanor Pryor, Director
Child Welfare Department - Frances M. Vance, Chief
Library Extension Service - Beverly Wheatcraft
Welfare Department - Lucile Wilson
HAWAII (8)
Department of Public Welfare - Miss Mary L. Noonan, Director (R)
Bureau of Sight Conservation - - Mrs. Vivian J. Castro, Director
Public Archives - Agnes C. Conrad, Archivist
Bureau of Maternal and Child Health - Dr. Katherine Edgar, Chief
Head Librarian of Hawaii - Mrs. Mabel Jackson
Director of Home Economics Education - Mrs. Helen G. McGill
Extension Librarian for Library of Hawaii - Suzanne Star
Law Librarian, Supreme Court Mrs. Mary Helen Weaver
IDAHO (2)
Department of Commerce & Development - Louise Shadduck, Secretary
Traveling Library of Idaho - Eugene Hart, Librarian
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
ILLINOIS (5)
Director of Department of Registration and Education - Vera M. Binks (R)
Executive Secretary to the Governor--Marion P. Keevers
Director, Extension Division of State Library - Harriet I. Carter
President, Civil Service Commission - Maude Myers
Librarian, Supreme Court Library - Jessie T. Smith
INDIANA (6)
Director of State Personnel Department - Corinne Henn (R)
State Attendance Officer - - Fern Norris (R)
Assistant Superintendent of State Parks - Ione F. Harrington (R)
Director of Hotels, Inns and Concessions - Ione F. Harrington (R)
Archivist, State Library - Margaret C. Pierson
Librarian, SupremeCourt - Mrs. Mary M. Schubert
IOWA (19)
Iowa Commission for the Blind . Mrs. Dorothy Kirsner (D)
Iowa Conservation Commission - Mrs. Helen Crabb (D)
Iowa Board of Health. Ruth Wolcott, M.D. (D)
State Historical Society - - Mrs. Martha Brunk (R), Mrs. Ruth Hollinghead (D)
State Library Board of Trustees - Mrs. A. S. Wendel (R), Mrs. H.L.
Witmer (R)
Merit System Council - Helen Irwin
Civil Defense Administration - Mrs. Rosa Cunningham (R)
Board of Public Instruction - - Mrs. Paul Scott, Mrs. Martin Van Oosterhout
(R), Mrs. Otha D. Wearin (D)
Board of Regents - Mrs. Robert Valentine (D), Mrs. Kenneth A. Evans (R),
Mrs. Joseph Reosenfield (D)
Board of Social Welfare - Mrs. Irene Mae Smith (D)
Director, State Traveling Library - Ernestine Brighton
Law Librarian, Legislative Library Bureau - - Geraldine Dunham
Director, Maternal & Child Welfare - Elizabeth Palmer
KANSAS (28)
State Librarian - Louise McNeal (R)
Election Commissioner - Mary K. Peltzer (D), Loretta Holzmeister (D)
Board of Cosmetology - Grace Maupin, Evelena Joseph, Florence McLaughlin
Board of Education - Mrs. Clyde E. Glandon, Mrs. Frances E. Bowersock,
Mildred Strohm
Board of Health - Sister Kathleen Keenan
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
KANSAS (Continued)
Nursing Registration and Education - Isle C. Steg, Sister Lena Mae Smith,
Sister Miriam Schremmer, Mabel Campbell, Mildred Rumpf
State Board of Review - Mrs. Edna Bernice Stewart, Mary Cook, Hazel
E. Runyan
Board of Social Welfare - Mrs. Helen Nickel (R)
Traveling Library Commission - Louise McNeal, Nannie Bingham, Mrs.
Joe Beeler, Mrs. William Ferguson, Mrs. E. T. Beck, Miss Zelia
J. French
Director, Division of Child Welfare - Dorothy W. Bradley
Director Division of Mental Hygiene - Lelia N. Myers
Law Librarian of the State Library - - Marie Russell
KENTUCKY (18)
Assistant Secretary of State - Frances Marshall Travis (D)
Deputy Commissioner of Conservation - Mrs. Violet Kilgore (D)
Nursing Education and Nurse Registration - Mrs. Marjorie C. Tyler,
Executive Secretary
Practical Nurses - Mrs. Mary F. McWilliams, Executive Secretary
Teacher Education & Certification Division - Miss Louise Combs, Director
Education of Handicapped Children Division - Miss Stella Edwards, Director
Home Economics Division, Bureau of Vocational Education - Miss Mary Lois
Williamson, Director
Division of Personnel, Department of Health - Mrs. Dorothy Thompson,
Supervisor
Division of Public Health Nursing - Miss Ruth Spurrier, Director
Division of Health Education - Miss Sara C. Stice, Director
Division of Maternal and Child Health - Mrs. Helen B. Fraser, Director
Division of Nutrition - Miss Mildred E. Neff, Director
Division of Statistical Services - Mrs. Kathern M. Clay, Director
Division of Foods and Drugs - Mrs. Sarah V. Dugan, Director
Kentucky Crippled Children Commission - Mrs. Marian Williamson, Director
Library Extension Division - Miss Margaret Willis, Director
State Board of Certification of Librarians - Miss Margaret Lavin, Chairman
Women's Prison, Pewee Valley - Mrs. Lonnie Watson, Warden
LOUISIANA (12)
Juvenile Probation Advisory Council - Mrs. Donnie Arrighi, Mrs. Robert
Lawes
State Board of Library Examiners - Miss Deborah Abramson, Chairman
Central Louisiana State Hospital Advisory Board - Mrs. Norma W.
Blackman, Chairman
State Librarian - Essae M. Culver
Commission on the Aging - Mrs. John Wesley Glover, Mrs. Frank Odom
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
LOUISIANA (Continued)
State Industrial School for Girls - Mrs. Florence McKoin, Superintendent
Department of Public Welfare - Mrs. Mary Evelyn Parker, Commissioner
Librarian, State Law Library - - Madge K. Tomeny
Louisiana Athletic Commission - Mrs. James A. Waldron, Chairman
Louisiana State Board of Nurse Examiners - Mrs. Clemence V. Whiteley,
President
MAINE (11)
State Library - Ruth A. Hazelton, Mary P. Goodrich, Edith L. Hary
State Personnel Board - Eva Mason Ross
Civil Defense and Public Safety - Germaine M. Fortier (D)
Commissioner of Labor and Industry - Marion E. Martin (R)
Office of the Secretary of State - Mrs. Bernice T. Goodine
Director of School Lunch Program - Gertrude Griney
Department of Health & Welfare - Dr. Ella Langer, Pauline S. McClay,
Dr. Margaret R. Simpson
MARYLAND (13)
Board of Manager, Montrose School for Girls - Mrs. Herman Moser, Mrs.
Frank A. Kaufman
State Board of Public Welfare - Mrs. Anna D. Sanford
Board of Trustees, St. Mary's Junior College - Mrs. George L. Ewalt, Jr.
Board of Managers, Barrett School for Girls - Mrs. Annie Spencer, Mrs.
Charlotte Mebane
Board of Examiners of Nurses - Mrs. Elizabeth F. Norwood
State Board of Education. - Mrs. J. Wilmer Cronin
Board of Trustees, University of Maryland - Mrs. John L. Whitehurst (D)
Acting Commissioner of Labor and Industry - - Mrs. Margaret W. Kimble (R)
Department of Education - Helen M. Clark, Eleanor G. Weagly
State Library - Louise E. Couper
MASSACHUSETTS (2)
Department of Education Mrs. George J. Galick
Senate Ways & Means Committee - Mrs. Stella Smith
MICHIGAN (3)*
Law Library - Charlotte Dunnebacke
State Library - Mrs. L. D. Fran, Louise Rees
MINNESOTA (3)
State Law Library - Margaret S. Andrews
Department of Welfare - Roberta Rindfleisch
all
Department of Education - Hannis S. Smith
* Additional list of 50 women appointees received after press time; not
included in total figure. Names aváilable on request.
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
MISSISSIPPI (3)
Medical Education Board - Mrs. Julia McCoy (D), Executive Secretary
State Archives and History Department - Miss Charlotte Capers, (D)
Library Commission - Lura Currier (D)
MISSOURI (1)
Supreme Court Library - Mary Louise Seibold, Acting Librarian
MONTANA (9)
State Board of Nursing Examiners - Miss Anna T. Beckwith, Executive
Secretary
Plumbing Examiners Board - Mrs. Mary Louise Date, Assistant Secretary
Chief Deputy Secretary of State - Mrs. Gail M. DeWalt, (D)
University of Montana - Miss Dorothy Green, Executive Secretary
State Board of Health - Dr. Edith Kuhns
State Board of Equalization - Mrs. Willa Murry
State Law Librarian - Miss Katherine Orchard
Historical Society of Montana - Miss Virginia Walton
Library Extension Commission - Mrs. Ruth O. Longworth
NEBRASKA (22)
Director of Division of Nursing - Emily F. Brickley
Director, State Board of Nursing - Helen C. Marsh
Director, Bureau of Vital Statistics - Freda Theis
Division of Personnel and Accounts - Helen J. McAllister
Director, Division of Maternal & Child Health - Mary S. Bitner, M.D.
Hospital Advisory Council - Mrs. Kenneth Wherry (R)
Veterans' Advisory Commission - Mrs. Nell Krause
Chairman, Board of Control - Mrs. Ethel M. Kirwin (D)
Hastings State Hospital Advisory Board - Mrs. William Whelan, Mrs.
Carl R. Matthiesen
Lincoln State Hospital Advisory Board - Mrs. Charles Warner (R)
Norfolk State Hospital Advisory Board - Mrs. Leland I. Carlson
Department of Public Welfare - Mrs. Gertrude Allen
Administrative Assistant, Board of Patrons - Mrs. Loretta Walker (R)
Board of Education of State Normal Schools - Mrs. Haven Smith
Capitol Mural Commission - Mrs. Paul Gallagher, Mrs. Edna Basten
Donald (R)
Public Library Commission - Mrs. Barton Kline, Mrs. Chester Hugo,
Mrs. Gordon Randall, Louise A. Nixon
Director, Division of Motor Fuels - Mrs. Inez Lebsock
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
NEVADA (4)
Director, Nevada State Welfare Department - Mrs. Barbara Coughlan
Law Librarian, State Library - Sarah Thompson
Supervisor School Lunch Program - Margaret Griffin
Historical Society - Clara S. Beatty, Executive Secretary
NEW HAMPSHIRE (32)
Board of Trustees, N. H. State University - Mary S. Brown (R)
Milk Control Board - Mabel LaMontagne (D)
Civil Defense Advisory Council - Mary E. Carr
State Board of Education - Deborah Gale Bryer
Deputy State Health Officer - Mary M. Atchison, M.D.
Director of Vital Statistics - Marian G. Maloon
Commission on Alcoholism - Elizabeth K. Lincoln, Camille Lamber
Board of Registration of Hairdressers - Joan Rzasa, Rose Couture,
Margaret L. Bunce
State Tuberculosis Commission - Alice W. Sukeforth
Hospital Advisory Council - Margaret Woodbury
Board of Trustees, N.H. State Hospital - Katherine P. Foster
Board of Trustees, State Industrial School - Dorothy T. Cox
Laconia State School Board of Trustees - Lillian R. Ross, Eva A. Speare
State Board of Probation - Ada C. Taylor (R)
Deputy Labor Commissioner - Ruth G. Morgan
Inspector, Department of Labor - Bernice B. Farnsworth
Director, State Employment Service Bureau - Abby L. Wilder
Legislative Council - Ann B. Gordon, Marye Walsh Caron, Nelle L. Holmes
Library Commission - Charlotte E. Morrison (D), Mildred Peterson McKay
State Board of Public Welfare - Edith B. Garner (R)
Board of Trustees, N.H. Teachers' Retirement System - Irene Hart
Director of School Lunches - Ruth M. Vutter
Department of Health - Ursula G. Sanders, M.D.
Department of Public Welfare - Aline A. Cavanaugh, Viennie Borton
NEW MEXICO (7)
Director of School Lunch Division - Vina R. Gardner
Legislative Fiscal Analyst - Inez Gill
Legislative Finance Commission - Inez Gill
Librarian, Museum - Gertrude Hill
Department of Public Health - Dr. Alvina Looram
Director Library Extension Service - Mrs. Irene S. Peck
Department of Public Welfare - Monte Mae Riley
OF PITE Едволлоных APERT
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
NEW JERSEY (24)
State Board of Education - Margaret T. Armstrong, Muriel Johnstone,
Marie H. Katzenbach, Elsie Yorton
Department of Education Kathryn B. Greywacz, Janet Z. McKinley,
Anita C. Metzler
Chief, Cancer Control Stella Booth.
Commission on Crippled Children - Irene Brown
President, N. J. Neuro-Psychiatric Institute - Mrs. Wm. T. Campbell
Public Health Council - Mrs. Erma T. Dilkes
Chairman, Board of Beauty Culture - Ann M. Donnelly
Division of Vital Statistics & Administration - Marguerite F. Hall, Director
Board of Governors, Rutgers University - Mrs. Ruth Hickman
Public Trustee, Rutgers University. - Florence M. Leonard
Superintendent, N. J. Reformatory for Women - - Edna Mahan
Division of Health, Safety & Physical Education - - Janet N. Schock
Superintendent, State Home for Girls - Miss Helen G. Sheley
Public Health Council - Mrs. Kathleen Slettleland
Acting Executive Secretaryto Lieutenant Governor. - Mrs. Dorothy G. Smith
Commission on Civil Rights - Margaret Sullivan, Margaret J. Warner
Chairman, N. J. Highway Authority - Mrs. Katherine E. White
Chief Public Health Nurse. - Gladys J. Wilson
NEW YORK (42)
Secretary of State . Caroline K. Simon, (R)
Administrative Assistant to Secretary of State - Rita Collins
Assistant Press Secretary to Governor - Mrs. Morton Savell (R)
Program Associates, Executive Chamber - June Martin, Edith Baikie
Deputy Commissioner of Commerce - Jane Todd (R)
Civil Service Commissioner - Mary Goode Krone (R)
Commissioner, State Insurance Fund - Constance D. Stearns
Assistant Solicitor General - Ruth Kessler Toch, (R)
Assistant Attorneys General - Emmeline E. Ferris (R), Margaret D. Hazel
(R), Jean R. McCoy, C. Mildred Pafundi (R), Winifred C. Stanley (R),
Eleanor Uris (R)
Thousand Islands St. Park Commission Mrs. Ralph D. Wallace
Regent, University of State of N. Y. - Caroline Werner Gannett
Board of Trustees, State University ⑉ Mrs. John A. Warner (D), Betty
Hawley Donnelly (D)
State University Associate Counsel - Ruth V. Iles
Vice Chairman, Mental Hygiene Council - Dr. Mary E. Mercer
Commission of Correction - Beatrice S. Burstein (D)
Workmen's Compensation Board - Angela R. Parisi (D), Dorothea
Donaldson (R)
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
NEW YORK (Continued)
Commission Against Discrimination - Mary Louise Nice (D)
State Youth Commission - Mrs. David Levy (D)
State Board of Mediation - Mabel Leslie, Dr. Jean T. McKelvey
Lottery Control Commission - Mrs. Carl T. Hogan (R), Mrs. John R.
Tinklepaugh (R)
Taconic State Park Commission - Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb
Saratoga Springs Commission - Kathryn H. Starbuck (D)
Advisory Council, Employment & Unemployment Insurance - Constance
Baker Motley
Board of Social Welfare - Marian P. McChesney, Mrs. Donovan Farrell,
Dorothy I. Height, Marie F. Porter
Women's Activities State Fair. - Helen B. Vandervort (R)
Department of Social Welfare - Margaret Barnard, Anne M. McGuire,
Eleanor Walsh
Department of Education - Helen Diehl
NORTH CAROLINA (4)
Chairman Rural Electrification Authority - Gwyn B. Price
State Librarian - Mrs. Elizabeth House Hughey
Director, School Lunch Program - Ann W. Maley
Commissioner, Department of Public Welfare - Dr. Ellen B. Winston
NORTH DAKOTA (6)
Superintendent of Schools, Burke County - Mrs. Signa Grubb (R)
Board of Higher Education - - Mrs. Elvira Jestrab, Mrs. Mildred Johnson
Board of Public Welfare - Mrs. Earl Shaw
Chairman, State Health Council - Florence Scott
Director, State Library Commission - Hazel Byrnes
OHIO (2)
Director, Department of Industrial Relations - Miss Margaret A. Mahoney (D)
Director, Department of Public Welfare - Mrs. Mary Gorman (D)
OKLAHOMA (7)
Supervisor, Child Welfare Division - Laura E. Dester
Acting Supervisor, Field Services, Department of Welfare - Gladys M. Neal
State Library - - Esther M. Henke, Mrs. Leah H. Law
Historical Society - Mrs. Rella Looney, Mrs. Dorothy Williams
Legislative Reference Librarian - Geraldine Smith
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
OREGON (5)
State Library - Eloise Ebert, Constance Grier
Unemployment Compensation Commission - Cecelia P. Galey
Public Welfare Commission - Jeanne Jewett
Director School Lunch Program - Laura P. Wells
PENNSYLVANIA (6)
Attorney General of Pennsylvania - Anne Alpern (D)
Secretary of Public Welfare - Ruth Grigg Horting (D)
State Civil Service Commission - Miss Susan H. Baker
Pennsylvania Securities Commission - Mrs. Elizabeth Zeidman
Department of Public Instruction - Elizabeth Holt
Acting Commissioner of Children and Youth - Eleanore Meckelnburg
RHODE ISLAND (9)
Associate Justice of Superior Court - Florence Kerins Murray
Commissioner of Minimum Wage - Margaret F. Ackroyd
Chairman, Board of Review, Employment Security - Margaret M. Sullivan
Board of Elections - Alice D. Violet
Supervisor, School Lunch Program - Mrs. Elizabeth S. Ferguson
Legislative Reference Librarian - Mabel G. Johnson
Administrator, Bureau for Blind - Eleanor M. Johnson
Assistant, In Charge of Archives - Mary T. Quinn
State Librarian - Grace M. Sherwood
SOUTH CAROLINA (5)
Department of Health - Florence S. Dunn, Administrator, Mental Health
Supervisor School Lunch Program - Kathleen Gaston
Librarian, Supreme Court - Mrs. Emma H. Motte
Librarian, State Library - Emily B. Reynolds
Chief, Division Child Welfare - Mrs. Deborah M. Southerlin
SOUTH DAKOTA (5)
Secretary of State - Miss Selma Sandness (D)
State Auditor - Mrs. Harriet Horning (D)
Commissioner, Employment Security - Miss Goldie Wells
Director, Child Welfare Division - Grace Martin
Secretary, State Library Commission - Mercedes Mackay
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
TENNESSEE (3)
Commissioner, Department of Public Welfare - Mrs. Frank C. Scott
Act. Chief of Public Assistance - Mrs. Alberta Boyd
Director, Public Libraries Division - Martha Parks
TEXAS (49)
Commissioner of Deeds - Betty E. McPherson
Firemen's Pension Commissioner - Mrs. Marie Hudson
Board of Directors, Texas College of Arts & Industries - Mrs. Frank Lewis
Texas Commission on Higher Education - Mrs. J. F. Boren
Board of Regents, North Texas State College - Miss Emma Mae Brotze
Board of Regents, State Teachers College - Miss Elizabeth Koch
Board of Regents, Texas Women's University - Mrs. Edgar Deen, Mrs.
John Hazlewood, Mrs. Nelda C. Stark
Board of Regents, University of Texas - Mrs. Charles Devall
State Board of Tuberculosis Nurses Examiners - Miss Mildred Blair, Mrs.
Travis McNair, Mrs. Brown Kendrick
State Board of Trustees, Teacher Retirement System - Miss Lois Gray
State Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners - Evelyn Bohls, Mrs. Maggie
Brice, Mrs. R. E. Seagler, Mrs. Adele Cherry, Mrs. Verlie Graham,
Mrs. Marie S. French
State Board of Nurse Examiners - Mrs. Faye Saye McGuffey, Mrs. Wanda
Reed, Sister Rose Francis, Miss Bernice Johnson
State Board of Mansion Supervisors - Mrs. Edgar Tobin, Mrs. Lem
Scarbrough, Mrs. J. S. Abercrombie
Library and Historical Commission - Mrs. Albert R. Cauthorn
Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools - Mrs. Howard E. Butt
Advisory Hospital Council - Sister M. Emery Kavanaugh, Mrs. Weldon
Strader, Mrs. L. E. Dudley, Mrs. George A. Hill, Jr.
Texas State Historical Survey Committee - Miss Ima Hogg (R), Mrs. Lane
Taylor, Mrs. Mike Butler, Mrs. E. A. Peden, Mrs. Max Weinert
State Board of Hairdressers & Cosmetologists - Mrs. Bess Monk, Mrs.
James L. Moore,
Good Neighbor Commission of Texas - Mrs. Kelly McAdams
Fannin State Park Commission - Mrs. Hatty Swickheimer, Mrs. Louise
Donoghue
Credit Union Advisory Commission - Mrs. Bessie Heard
State Commission for the Blind - Miss Nellie Louise Scales
Director, State Legislative Reference Library - Doris H. Connerly
Department of Public Library - Rosalind Giles
Commissioner, Bureau of Laboratory Statistics - Mrs. M. B. Morgan
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The Light Dwight ? JOHNSON
WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
UTAH (32)
Board of Alcoholism - - Mrs. Ruth Mumford (R)
Council of Defense - Mrs. Walter C. Ewing (D)
Board of Education - Mrs. Madeline B. Wirthlin (R), Mrs. Edna Snow
Cannon (D)
Advisory Council, Schools for the Deaf and Blind - Mrs. Vera Gee (R)
State Course of Study Committee - Mrs. Whitney Smith (R)
Advisory Board for Driver Education - Mrs. Arvil Stark (Non-partisan)
Fair Association - Mrs. E. A. Parson (R), Evelyn Hansen (D)
Advisory Council, Nursing Homes, Convalescent Homes, Etc. - Mrs.
Grace Bywater (R), Mrs. Bertha D. Thornell (D), Mrs. Helen Adams (R)
Historical Society - Juanita Brooks (D), Mrs. A. C. Jensen (D)
Hospital Advisory Council - Sister Mary Margaret (R), Mrs. Thelma
Berkheimer (R)
Institute of Fine Arts Mrs. Rulon Clark (R), Mrs. A. L. Beeley (Non-
partisan), Mrs. Alice M. Bailey (R), Mrs. Harold Christensen (R),
Mrs. Fred Froerer (R)
Library Commission - Mrs. Dan Jones (R), Miss Lucy Phillips (R)
Merit System Council - Mrs. O. N. Malmquist (Non-partisan)
Department of Public Welfare - Miss Lorraine Cook (R)
University of Utah Board of Regents - Mrs. A. U. Miner (R)
Utah State University, Trustees Board - Mrs. Fern B. Ercanbrack (R),
Mrs. Eve S. Ashton (R)
Mental Health Committee - Mrs. Cecil H. Baker (R)
Committee To Study The Mental Defective - Mrs. I. R. Morrison (D)
Fulbright Scholarship Committee - Mrs. W. O. Pell (R)
Civil Rights Committee - Mrs. Deliah M. Abbott (R)
VERMONT (17)
Secretary of Real Estate Commission Mrs. Josephine M.R. Marchi
Deputy Secretary of State - Helen E. Burbank (R)
Director of Arts & Crafts Advisory Commission - Ruth W. Coburn (R)
Superintendent of Women's Reformatory - Helen M. Koltonski (R)
Director of Public Assistance - Mary F. Gibson
Director of Child Welfare Services - Frances M. Bates
Director of Blind Services - Virginia Cole (R)
Executive Director of State Recreation Board - Theresa E. Brungardt (R)
Advertising Director of Development Commission - Mary Perry
Executive Secretary of Free Public Library - Jane L. Hobson (R)
Executive Secretary of Teachers Retirement Board - Charlotte L. Merriman
Educational T.V. Commission - Mrs. Helen B. Laurence, Mrs. Elsie
A. Cowles
Member, Teachers Retirement Board - Miss Esther J. Vrie
Chairman, Free Public Library Commission - Mrs. Hazel M. Wills
Board of Social Welfare - Mrs. Bessie Bodine
State Board of Education . Mrs. Leona G. Phillips
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
VIRGINIA (6)
Secretary of the Commonwealth - Miss Martha Bell Conway (D)
Motion Picture Censor Board - Mrs. Russell F. Wagers (D), Mrs. Lollie
C. Whitehead (D), Mrs. Margaret K. Gregory (D)
Head, Extension Division, State Library - - Florence Yoder
Supervisor, School Lunch Program - - Helen G. Ward
WASHINGTON (4)
Assistant Secretary of State - - Jean C. Dunker
Director, Department of Licenses - Mrs. Louise S. Taylor
State Librarian . - Maryan E. Reynolds
Supervisor, School Lunch Program - - Agnes R. Fitzgerald
WEST VIRGINIA (4)
Department of Finance & Administration - Martha Ford
Chief, Division of Child Welfare - Lillian Nagy
Director, Department of Mental Health - Dr. Margaret T. Rose
Director, Division of Maternal and Child Hygiene - Margaret Waggoner
WISCONSIN (27)
Retirement Fund Board of Trustees - Margaret L. Clark
State Radio Council - Lulu Radlund
Free Library Commission - Janice S. Kee, Hilda Cavanaugh, Mrs.
Ella M. Veslak
Director of Nursing Education - Adele G. Stahl
State Board of Health - Dr. Amy Louise Hunter, Dr. Elizabeth Baldwin
Governor's Commission on Human Rights - Mrs. Rebecca C. Barton,
Mrs. Melvin Bonn, Mrs. Gloria Downing, Mrs. Ulysses G. Lindsay,
Mrs. Carl Nordhagen, Mrs. William M. O'Donnell, Stella Pederson
State Board of Nursing - Ruth Coe, Sylvia Haubrich, Sister M. Regula,
Ione M. Rowley, Jeanette R. Welsch
State Board of Public Welfare - Mrs. C. R. Beck, Mrs. Karl Kleinpel, Mrs.
Wallace Lomoe
Board of Regents, State College - Anita V. Hinrichs, Mrs. Erna McIntyre,
Mary M. Walter
State Board of Vocational & Adult Education - Mrs. Erna Cartwright
WYOMING (30)
Director, State Personnel Department - Mrs. Pauline Morgan
Deputy State Superintendent, Public Instruction - Katherine Vehar
Eisenhowal
State Board of Education - Miss Maude Long
LIBITORY
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WOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS
1959
WYOMING (Continued)
Assistant Director, Women's Activities, Civil Defense - Mrs. Margaret
Peterson
Assistant Attorney General - Mrs. Ellen Crowley
Secretary, Board of Cosmetology - Mrs. Hazel Anderson
Esther Morris Memorial Commission - Mrs. Jean Morgan, Mrs. Barbara
A. Cross, Mrs. Irene Patterson
State Board of Health - - Mrs. Dan Kirkbride
State Board of Nursing - Miss Gertrude Gould, Emily J. Tuttle
Superintendent, State Children's Home at Casper - - Nell Richmond
Deputy State Land Commissioner - Mrs. Maxine B. Rhoades
Archives and Historical Department - Lola M. Homsher, Henryetta Berry,
Mrs. Margaret Archibald Hall, Mrs. Leora Peters, Mrs. Lora Jewett,
Mrs. Esther Mockler, Mrs. Lorraine McGeath Stadius
State Librarian - Miss May Gillies
Administrator, Microfilm Department - Miss Dorothy Taylor
Wyoming Retirement Board - Miss Emma Duis
University of Wyoming, Board of Trustees ⑉ Mrs. Lorna Patterson, Mrs.
Neil Bush
Wyoming Youth Council - Mrs. W. H. Douglass, Mrs. Vida Armitage,
Ruth M. Skeeters
Auditor, Office of Auditor - Minnie A. Mitchell
PUERTO RICO (10)
Head, Employment and Migration Service - Petroamerica Pagan
Head, Public Welfare Division - Aida G. dePagan
Head, Legal Division, Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority - Aida
Chettini
Chairlady, Industrial Commission - Raquel Nigaglioni
Vice-Chairman, Board of Commissioners of Capitol of San Juan - Josefina
A. Batlle
Librarian, Department of Justice - Mrs. Gladys Cruz
Librarian, College of Law - Margaret Hall
Chief, Bureau of Mental Health - Mrs. Dolores G. LaCaro
Chief, Bureau of Maternal & Infant Hygiene - Dr. Dolores M. Pinero
Librarian, Supreme Court - Maria E. Vega
VIRGIN ISLANDS (3)
Supervising Librarian - Nina A. C. Corniero
Director Employment Service - Mrs. E. Louise Scott
Librarian, Government of Virgin Islands - Florence A. Williams
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"ocrText": "WOMEN'S DIVISION\n1959\nREPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE\n1625 EYE STREET, N. W.\nWASHINGTON 6, D. C.\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\nThe advances of women in winning appointments to high State and Territorial\nGovernment positions - and the scope of their responsibilities in these posts -\nare truly noteworthy.\nWomen hold top appointive posts in every State of the union, except Alaska,\nhaving been named to these positions by Governors or by key State adminis-\ntration officials. They serve in Governors' Cabinets, as chiefs and deputy\nchiefs of departments, as members of commissions on public welfare, public\nutilities, employment security, fiscal affairs, public personnel, education.\nThey serve as judges, clerks of courts, and in a variety of other appointive\njudicial posts.\nFollowing is a list by State of 875 women, showing their appointive positions,\nbased on currently available information. It is important to note that this survey\nDOES NOT LIST ALL WOMEN APPOINTIVE OFFICE-HOLDERS or cover every\nscope of women's work. It does endeavor to collate as much information as the\nStates have contributed on the character of work in which women officials are\nengaged, and the heavier responsibilities and opportunities being extended to\nthem. Political affiliations, when available, are indicated by (R) and (D).\nALABAMA (5)\nState Board of Pardons and Parcles - Mrs. Frances R. Robinson (D)\nPublic Library Service - Emily Wheelock Reed, Director (D)\nBureau of Public Assistance - Elizabeth Bryan\nBureau of Child Welfare - Mrs. Edward Gresham, Director\nReal Estate Board - Mrs. Mary J. Thompson, Executive Secretary\nARIZONA (4)\nChild Welfare Department - Ann Bracken, Supervisor\nDepartment of Library & Archives - Mrs. Alice B. Good, Director\nOffice of Auditor - Mrs. Jewel W. Jordon, Auditor\nPublic Assistance & Services - Mrs. Christine Small, Director\nARKANSAS (4)\nArkansas Commerce Commission Kay Matthews, Commissioner\nState Librarian - Mrs. Karl Neal\nDirector of Child Welfare Ruth Johnston\nDirector of School Lunch Program - Ruth Powell\nPULL\n-1-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nCALIFORNIA (133)\nDeputy Legislative Counsel - Barbara Cochrane Calais, Virginia Stephens,\nCocker, Ann Mackey, Rose Woods\nDeputy Attorney General - Doris H. Maier, Gail A. Strader, Elizabeth\nPalmer, Miriam E. Wolff, Alberta Gattone, Joan D. Gross, Bonnie L.\nHansen, Elizabeth Miller\nDepartment of Education Jane Hood, Mrs. Dorothy M. Schnell, Miss Helen\nHeffernan, Bernece McCrary\nDivision of Libraries - Mrs. Carma R. Zimmerman, Mrs. Phyllis I. Dalton,\nBeulah Mumm, Dorothy M. Sinclair, Mary K. Sanders, Margaret E.\nPreston, Mary Schell, Constance E. Lee, Amelia M. White, Barbara\nGray Boyd, Arlene Hope, Mrs. Virginia Simpson, Olive Swain, Mrs. Alicia\nM. Hook, Edith A. Irwin\nSchool for Cerebral-Palsied Children - Melba M. Miller, Superintendent\nState Board of Education - Mrs. Seymour Mathiesen, Mrs. Eva. C. Noland,\nDr. Mabel E. Kinney\nState Board of Equalization - Shirley Filiatrault, Deputy, 4th District\nHousing Commission - Gail Merrit Jobe, Commissioner\nDivision of Labor Law Enforcement - Pauline Nightingale\nIndustrial Welfare Commission - Mrs. Frances Larsen, Mrs. Mae Stoneman,\nMiss Virginia Allee, Ruth H. Krause, Helen Nelson\nDepartment of Mental Hygiene -Mrs. Gertrude Deinstadt, Laverne Owens,\nKatharine M. Steele, Dr. Mary A. Gorton,\nCitizens' Advisory Committee on Aging - Mrs. Edna Bonn Russell, Miss\nBarbara Rosien, Mrs. Ann Boyd\nDepartment of Investment - Nora M. Collins\nMilitary Department - Kay Jordan\nDepartment of Natural Resources - Mrs. Gertrude G. Harriman\nMount San Jacinto Winter Park Authority - Gwynn Wilson\nDepartment of Professional and Vocational Standards - Mrs. Ruth Palmer,\nMrs. Beryl C. Reinhardt, Mrs. Helen M. Virga, Mrs. Ella K. Mays,\nMrs. Eunice Evans, Mrs. Pearle Miller, Mrs. Ruth Bronson Puckett,\nMrs. Dorothy Scott, Maas Ellen Larsen, Nancy Knick, Veula Faye\nMitchell, Grace Freudenthal, Mrs. Edith Chambers, Sister M. DePaul\nOberti, Esther A. Controy, Ramona Hopkins, Helen Jane Hancock,\nHenrietta Villaescusa, Mrs. Gertrude Baker, Katherine Brown Becker,\nMagdalen Dennis, Kathryn Cafferty, R. N., Sister M. Rebecca, Gertrude\nCraddock, Mildred L. Brown, Elizabeth Lingruen, Mrs. Evelyn McIntyre,\nNina B. Craft, Mrs. Ruth B. Seeley, Mrs. Hazel Lorenz, Mrs. Alice\nMcLarney, Mrs. Pearl Sievers, Mrs. Jeanette Broom, Miss Maryellen\nWood\nDepartment of Public Health - Mrs. P. D. Bevil, Ann W. Haynes, Irma\nWest, Marcia Hays, Edna J. Brandt, Helen E. Walsh, Esther C. Spencer,\nSister Mary Philippa, Sister M. Laurencita\n- 2 -\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nCALIFORNIA (Continued)\nDepartment of Public Works - Mrs. J. Frank Snowden, Isabel Nessler\nDepartment of Motor Vehicles - Lillian Hart, Elizabeth M. Onstott,\nJune Perkins\nDepartment of California Highway Patrol - Gladys Warner\nOffice of Regents, University of California - Mrs. Dorothy B. Chandler,\nMrs. Catherine Hearst, Marjorie J. Woolman\nCalifornia Horse Racing Board - Miss Claire Douglass, Secretary\nYouth Authority - Evelyn Schilling, Iris Walden, Miss Mary B. Perry,\nMiss Helen L. Coad, Mrs. Beatrice D. Dolan, Miss May J. Buwalda\nCalifornia Recreation Commission - Mrs. Rollin Brown, Mrs. Bartlett\nB. Heard\nDepartment of Corrections . Miss Alma Holzschuh, Mrs. Anne Humphreys,\nMrs. Doris Kingsley, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Lewis, Mrs. Myrtle Wallace,\nMrs. Mildred M. Prince, Mrs. Beulah K. Spencer\nDepartment of Social Welfare Mrs. George H. Bowman, Mrs. Jackson W.\nChance, Mrs. Carmen Warschaw, Lucile Kennedy, Elizabeth MacLatchie,\nLouise Kennedy\nCalifornia State Fair and Exposition Mrs. Florence M. Doe\nCommission on Metropolitan Area Problems Mrs. Rudd Brown\nState Allocation Board - Dorothy M. Donohoe\nBoard of Directors of 29th District Agricultural Association - Mrs.\nMelissa C. Trask\nDepartment of Industrial Relations - Mrs. Alta Clifford Potter\nCOLORADO (19)\nCommission on Alcoholism - Mrs. Frona McCambridge\nBoard of Examiners in the Basic Sciences - Dr. Esther B. Starks\nState Board of Cosmetology - Izetta Wright, Helen M. Scott, Louise Weldin,\nState Board of Nurse Examiners - Cecelia Gillespie, Mrs. Leora Dick,\nSister Maureen Tracy, Mrs. Irene E. Bainton, Miss Marguerite\nPaetznick, Sister Beatrix Carey\nState Board of Practical Nurse Examiners - Mrs. Mary Wickersham, Mrs.\nDoris L. Allen, Mrs. Edith A, Wilson\nState Board of Pharmacy - Mrs. Edna W. Risch\nRepresentative Member of Public Institutional Advisory Board - Mrs.\nRena Mary Taylor\nServices for the Blind - Mrs. Kathryn C. Barkausen\nState Archivist - Dolores C. Renze\nState Historian - Agnes V. right Spring\nCONNECTICUT (6)\nCommissioner of New London County - Dorothy H. Satti (D)\nFortified Rights Commission - Gertrude P. O'Donnell (D)\nSchool Lunch & Nutrition. - Edith C. Blakeley, Supervisor\nJustima\nState Library - Doris Cook, Archivist\nBUL\nUNION\nPublic Services Division - Virginia A. Knox, Chief\nBureau of Libraries Helen Ridgway, Director\n- 3 -\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nDELAWARE (89)\nAssistant Secretary of State - Margaret D. Tomlinson, (R)\nLegislative Reference Bureau. - Maxine Schulz, Assistant Director\nDelaware National Guard Lt. Col. Dorothy Millman Richardson\nDelaware Archaeological Board - Mrs. Roberta O. McClearnen\nDelaware Commission for the Blind - Mrs. Irene duPont, Mrs. James E.\nMarvel, Mrs. James R. Morford, Mrs. Henry V.P. Wilson\nBudget Commission - - Mrs. Lillian I. Martin\nState Building and Grounds Commission - Mrs. Jessica I. Terry\nDelaware Commission on Children and Youth - Miss Elizabeth S. Townsend,,\nRuth M. Laws, Mrs. Helen Von Dreele, Marguerite H. Burnett, Mrs.\nMadaline E. Buchanan\nState Board of Chiropody Examiners - Dr. Doris R. Barnes\nCivil Defense Advisory Council - Ruth M. Cann, Helen Faust, Bessie\nPeterson, Constance Robbins, Dorothy J. Till\nBoard of Trustees, Delaware State College - Mrs. Thelma T. Young, Mrs.\nEdmund N. Carpenter\nBoard of Ditch Commissioners - Frances E. Thomas\nState Board of Education - Marvel O. Watson, Mrs. Madaline E. Buchanan\nState Director of Art Education - Edith L. Mitchell\nState Director of Teacher Education & Professional Standards Dr. Elizabeth\nC. Lloyd\nState Director of Americanization & Adult Education - Marguerite H. Burnett\nState Director of Service Bureau for Foreign-born Residents - Grace B. Stone\nState Director of Home Economics Education Dr. L. Ann Buntin\nState Director of School Lunch Program - Martha Bonar\nAdvisory Committee on Needs of Exceptional Children - Elizabeth C. Elliott,\nPhyllis Horsey, Naomi Frost\nNew Castle Historic Buildings Commission - Mrs. J. Thomas Robinson,\nPhyllis Horsey\nGovernor's Fire Prevention Council - Mrs. Estella Baker, Mrs. Virginia\nButts, Mrs. Alice M. King, Mrs. Eva. Raughley, Mrs. Alberta Smith\nState Board of Health - Mrs. Edith Kendall, Mrs. Caroline Keene, Mrs.\nEva N. Scotton\nDivision of Public Health Nursing - Mary M. Klaes, Director\nDivision of Oral Hygiene - Margaret H. Jeffreys, Director\nState Board of Housing - Mrs. F. Audrey Piper\nLabor Commission of Delaware - Mrs. Pearl Herlihy, Marguerite Postles\nLewes Memorial Commission - Dora M. Furniss, Mrs. Robert Hunter Orr,\nMrs. D. Anthony Potter\nLibrary Commission for the State of Delaware - Mrs. Gertrude L. Slaybaugh,\nMrs. Elise Dickey, Mrs. Florence M. Taylor, Mrs. Myrtha Calhoun,\nMrs. William E. Ferguson, Mrs. Helen Jernee, Mrs. Virginia F. K.\nMessick\nBoard on Mental Health Training & Research - Christine J. B. Dobbs,\nValerie Boggs\nBoard of Examiners of Graduate Nurses - Alice Cook, R. N., Lillian G.\nRiley, R. N., Ada E. Moratti, R. N., Sara F. Gibson, R.N.\n- 4 -\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nDELAWARE (Continued)\nState Board of Examiners in Optometry - Dr. Elizabeth F. Phillips\nState Park Commission - Penelope L. Fox\nState Examining Board of Physical Therapists - Miss Carolyn Heil, Eleanor\nJ. Bader\nPortrait Commission - Mrs. Julia Tallman, Mrs. Mabel L. Ridgely\nPublic Archives Commission - Mrs. Mabel L. Ridgely, Mrs. Eleanor B.\nCooch, Mrs. Nan F. Campbell\nBoard of Trustees, University of Delaware - Mrs. Charles P. Townsend,\nMrs. Albert W. James\nState Board of Welfare - Mrs. Mildren Johnson Jones, Mrs. Naomi\nLofland, Mrs. Camille W. Jacobs\nBureau of Social Services - Miss E. Kathryn Pennypacker\nState Welfare Home & Hospital for the Chronically Ill at Smyrna - Mrs.\nEsther Pratt\nWoods Haven School for Girls, Board - Mrs. Frances B. Scott, Mrs. Eleanor\nS. Paradee, Miss Mary Dewees\nYouth Services Commission of Delaware ⑉ Mrs. Martin A. Klaver, Mrs.\nRuth R. Cooch\nBridge House State Detention Home for Juveniles - Mrs. Margaret Forsyth\nThe Kruse School - Mrs. Dorothy Banton\nFLORIDA (98)\nMembers District Board of Social Welfare, 1st District - Mrs. Hugh Adams,\nMrs. Cebelle Meigs, Mrs. B. D. Alford, Mrs. Henry E. McLaughlin,\nMrs. Gwendolyn B. Rogers, Mrs. W. N. Faircloth, Myrtle W. Childers,\nMrs. Wallace McLeod, Mrs. Lucille Fuqua, Mrs. J. A. Stephens, Mrs.\nT. E. Taylor, Mrs. Van H. Priest, Mrs. Virginia Engstrom, Mrs.\nJennie Louque, Mrs. Jean Colbert, Mrs. John M. Phillips, Mrs. W.A.\nMcMullen, Mrs. William Johnstone, Mrs. Thelma Sheffield, Mary Belle\nRogers, Wilma Morris, Mrs. William Knabb, Mrs. O. F. Alford, Mrs.\nJ. C. Harris, Sara George Geiger, Bessie M. Burns, Mrs. H.W. Fish-\nler, Laurie A. Browning, Mrs. Thomas W. Oliver, Mrs. Ray V. Wilson,\nMrs. Alice Cason, Mrs. Paul F. Betzold, Mrs. Alvin Leitman, Mrs.\nJohn C. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. James L. Estes, Mrs. Joe P. Brown, Mrs.\nFred C. Sikes, Mrs. May D. Durrance, Muriel Hirsch Pick, Helen R.\nTedder, Mrs. T. Noble Brown, Mrs. R.F.E. Cooke, Mrs. Bess O'Neill,\nJessie Mae Boring, Tessie Lee Fisher, Mrs. L. Wallace Riggins, Mrs.\nW. A. Pattishall, Mrs. P. K. Weaver, Mrs. Mary Holler\nSchool Lunch Program - Thelma Flanagan, Supervisor\nState Library - Verna R. Nistendirk, Dorothy Dodd\nCourt Reporter - Mrs. Weba Paul, Frances Thigpen, Esther K. Brahaney,\nLoretta Perdue, Mrs. Connie Luebke, Miss Elva Crumpton, Maude B.\nClingan, Evelyn Higgs, Mrs. M. Bama Conner, Dolores L. Gard,\nSECURITY\nMarilyn Cleveland Langford, Mrs. Rosie Sclafani, Mrs. Marguerite\nC. Sapp, Zola B. Folkes, Mrs. Nelie P. Heath, Betty Gaskins Owens,\nFRIEN\nMrs. Louisa Parks, Mrs. Joe M. Stiles, Louise Pencke, Marguerite\nKlingmeyer, Mrs. Virginia Toffaletti\n-5-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nFLORIDA (Continued)\nClerk of Court - Kathleen L. Hartley\nJudge, Juvenile Court, Monroe County Mrs. Eva Warner Gibson\nJudge, Small Claims Court, Madison County - Alice C. Williams\nState Board of Examiners in the Basic Science - Mary Noka Hood\nBoard of Beauty Culture Examiners - Gladys Moore\nFlorida Children's Commission - Mrs. Sydney Weintraub, Mrs. Hamilton\nHunt, Mrs. Jack Pearce Ashmore, Sr., Mrs. Ellen Whiteside, Mrs. J.L.\nMcCaffrey, Mrs. Irene L. Williams, Mrs. Clyde H. Johnson, Edna S.\nWilliams\nFlorida Board of Massage - Agnes P. Snedecar\nCouncil on Mental Health - Mrs. Anne S. Gautier, Gwendolyn B. Rogers,\nSonia L. King,\nState Motor Vehicle Commission Mrs. Ina S. Thompson\nFlorida State Bcard of Nursing. - Jewel Laramore, Thelma Beck, Mrs. Irene\nF. Workman, Hazel M. Peeples, Virginia Albaugh, Timoxena Sloan,\nOrpha Russell\nGEORGIA (9)\nConfederate Pension and Record Department. Miss Lillian Henderson,\nDirector\nAssistant State Librarian - Miss Vera Jameson\nState Pardon and Parole Board - Mrs. Rebecca L. Garrett\nArchives & Historical Department Mrs. Mary G. Bryan, Director\nCorporation Clerk Mrs. Louise Buchanan\nDivision of School Lunch Programs - Eleanor Pryor, Director\nChild Welfare Department - Frances M. Vance, Chief\nLibrary Extension Service - Beverly Wheatcraft\nWelfare Department - Lucile Wilson\nHAWAII (8)\nDepartment of Public Welfare - Miss Mary L. Noonan, Director (R)\nBureau of Sight Conservation - - Mrs. Vivian J. Castro, Director\nPublic Archives - Agnes C. Conrad, Archivist\nBureau of Maternal and Child Health - Dr. Katherine Edgar, Chief\nHead Librarian of Hawaii - Mrs. Mabel Jackson\nDirector of Home Economics Education - Mrs. Helen G. McGill\nExtension Librarian for Library of Hawaii - Suzanne Star\nLaw Librarian, Supreme Court Mrs. Mary Helen Weaver\nIDAHO (2)\nDepartment of Commerce & Development - Louise Shadduck, Secretary\nTraveling Library of Idaho - Eugene Hart, Librarian\n-6-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nILLINOIS (5)\nDirector of Department of Registration and Education - Vera M. Binks (R)\nExecutive Secretary to the Governor--Marion P. Keevers\nDirector, Extension Division of State Library - Harriet I. Carter\nPresident, Civil Service Commission - Maude Myers\nLibrarian, Supreme Court Library - Jessie T. Smith\nINDIANA (6)\nDirector of State Personnel Department - Corinne Henn (R)\nState Attendance Officer - - Fern Norris (R)\nAssistant Superintendent of State Parks - Ione F. Harrington (R)\nDirector of Hotels, Inns and Concessions - Ione F. Harrington (R)\nArchivist, State Library - Margaret C. Pierson\nLibrarian, SupremeCourt - Mrs. Mary M. Schubert\nIOWA (19)\nIowa Commission for the Blind . Mrs. Dorothy Kirsner (D)\nIowa Conservation Commission - Mrs. Helen Crabb (D)\nIowa Board of Health. Ruth Wolcott, M.D. (D)\nState Historical Society - - Mrs. Martha Brunk (R), Mrs. Ruth Hollinghead (D)\nState Library Board of Trustees - Mrs. A. S. Wendel (R), Mrs. H.L.\nWitmer (R)\nMerit System Council - Helen Irwin\nCivil Defense Administration - Mrs. Rosa Cunningham (R)\nBoard of Public Instruction - - Mrs. Paul Scott, Mrs. Martin Van Oosterhout\n(R), Mrs. Otha D. Wearin (D)\nBoard of Regents - Mrs. Robert Valentine (D), Mrs. Kenneth A. Evans (R),\nMrs. Joseph Reosenfield (D)\nBoard of Social Welfare - Mrs. Irene Mae Smith (D)\nDirector, State Traveling Library - Ernestine Brighton\nLaw Librarian, Legislative Library Bureau - - Geraldine Dunham\nDirector, Maternal & Child Welfare - Elizabeth Palmer\nKANSAS (28)\nState Librarian - Louise McNeal (R)\nElection Commissioner - Mary K. Peltzer (D), Loretta Holzmeister (D)\nBoard of Cosmetology - Grace Maupin, Evelena Joseph, Florence McLaughlin\nBoard of Education - Mrs. Clyde E. Glandon, Mrs. Frances E. Bowersock,\nMildred Strohm\nBoard of Health - Sister Kathleen Keenan\n-7-\nTHE BUT Eisenhoeld\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nKANSAS (Continued)\nNursing Registration and Education - Isle C. Steg, Sister Lena Mae Smith,\nSister Miriam Schremmer, Mabel Campbell, Mildred Rumpf\nState Board of Review - Mrs. Edna Bernice Stewart, Mary Cook, Hazel\nE. Runyan\nBoard of Social Welfare - Mrs. Helen Nickel (R)\nTraveling Library Commission - Louise McNeal, Nannie Bingham, Mrs.\nJoe Beeler, Mrs. William Ferguson, Mrs. E. T. Beck, Miss Zelia\nJ. French\nDirector, Division of Child Welfare - Dorothy W. Bradley\nDirector Division of Mental Hygiene - Lelia N. Myers\nLaw Librarian of the State Library - - Marie Russell\nKENTUCKY (18)\nAssistant Secretary of State - Frances Marshall Travis (D)\nDeputy Commissioner of Conservation - Mrs. Violet Kilgore (D)\nNursing Education and Nurse Registration - Mrs. Marjorie C. Tyler,\nExecutive Secretary\nPractical Nurses - Mrs. Mary F. McWilliams, Executive Secretary\nTeacher Education & Certification Division - Miss Louise Combs, Director\nEducation of Handicapped Children Division - Miss Stella Edwards, Director\nHome Economics Division, Bureau of Vocational Education - Miss Mary Lois\nWilliamson, Director\nDivision of Personnel, Department of Health - Mrs. Dorothy Thompson,\nSupervisor\nDivision of Public Health Nursing - Miss Ruth Spurrier, Director\nDivision of Health Education - Miss Sara C. Stice, Director\nDivision of Maternal and Child Health - Mrs. Helen B. Fraser, Director\nDivision of Nutrition - Miss Mildred E. Neff, Director\nDivision of Statistical Services - Mrs. Kathern M. Clay, Director\nDivision of Foods and Drugs - Mrs. Sarah V. Dugan, Director\nKentucky Crippled Children Commission - Mrs. Marian Williamson, Director\nLibrary Extension Division - Miss Margaret Willis, Director\nState Board of Certification of Librarians - Miss Margaret Lavin, Chairman\nWomen's Prison, Pewee Valley - Mrs. Lonnie Watson, Warden\nLOUISIANA (12)\nJuvenile Probation Advisory Council - Mrs. Donnie Arrighi, Mrs. Robert\nLawes\nState Board of Library Examiners - Miss Deborah Abramson, Chairman\nCentral Louisiana State Hospital Advisory Board - Mrs. Norma W.\nBlackman, Chairman\nState Librarian - Essae M. Culver\nCommission on the Aging - Mrs. John Wesley Glover, Mrs. Frank Odom\n-8-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nLOUISIANA (Continued)\nState Industrial School for Girls - Mrs. Florence McKoin, Superintendent\nDepartment of Public Welfare - Mrs. Mary Evelyn Parker, Commissioner\nLibrarian, State Law Library - - Madge K. Tomeny\nLouisiana Athletic Commission - Mrs. James A. Waldron, Chairman\nLouisiana State Board of Nurse Examiners - Mrs. Clemence V. Whiteley,\nPresident\nMAINE (11)\nState Library - Ruth A. Hazelton, Mary P. Goodrich, Edith L. Hary\nState Personnel Board - Eva Mason Ross\nCivil Defense and Public Safety - Germaine M. Fortier (D)\nCommissioner of Labor and Industry - Marion E. Martin (R)\nOffice of the Secretary of State - Mrs. Bernice T. Goodine\nDirector of School Lunch Program - Gertrude Griney\nDepartment of Health & Welfare - Dr. Ella Langer, Pauline S. McClay,\nDr. Margaret R. Simpson\nMARYLAND (13)\nBoard of Manager, Montrose School for Girls - Mrs. Herman Moser, Mrs.\nFrank A. Kaufman\nState Board of Public Welfare - Mrs. Anna D. Sanford\nBoard of Trustees, St. Mary's Junior College - Mrs. George L. Ewalt, Jr.\nBoard of Managers, Barrett School for Girls - Mrs. Annie Spencer, Mrs.\nCharlotte Mebane\nBoard of Examiners of Nurses - Mrs. Elizabeth F. Norwood\nState Board of Education. - Mrs. J. Wilmer Cronin\nBoard of Trustees, University of Maryland - Mrs. John L. Whitehurst (D)\nActing Commissioner of Labor and Industry - - Mrs. Margaret W. Kimble (R)\nDepartment of Education - Helen M. Clark, Eleanor G. Weagly\nState Library - Louise E. Couper\nMASSACHUSETTS (2)\nDepartment of Education Mrs. George J. Galick\nSenate Ways & Means Committee - Mrs. Stella Smith\nMICHIGAN (3)*\nLaw Library - Charlotte Dunnebacke\nState Library - Mrs. L. D. Fran, Louise Rees\nMINNESOTA (3)\nState Law Library - Margaret S. Andrews\nDepartment of Welfare - Roberta Rindfleisch\nall\nDepartment of Education - Hannis S. Smith\n* Additional list of 50 women appointees received after press time; not\nincluded in total figure. Names aváilable on request.\n-9-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nMISSISSIPPI (3)\nMedical Education Board - Mrs. Julia McCoy (D), Executive Secretary\nState Archives and History Department - Miss Charlotte Capers, (D)\nLibrary Commission - Lura Currier (D)\nMISSOURI (1)\nSupreme Court Library - Mary Louise Seibold, Acting Librarian\nMONTANA (9)\nState Board of Nursing Examiners - Miss Anna T. Beckwith, Executive\nSecretary\nPlumbing Examiners Board - Mrs. Mary Louise Date, Assistant Secretary\nChief Deputy Secretary of State - Mrs. Gail M. DeWalt, (D)\nUniversity of Montana - Miss Dorothy Green, Executive Secretary\nState Board of Health - Dr. Edith Kuhns\nState Board of Equalization - Mrs. Willa Murry\nState Law Librarian - Miss Katherine Orchard\nHistorical Society of Montana - Miss Virginia Walton\nLibrary Extension Commission - Mrs. Ruth O. Longworth\nNEBRASKA (22)\nDirector of Division of Nursing - Emily F. Brickley\nDirector, State Board of Nursing - Helen C. Marsh\nDirector, Bureau of Vital Statistics - Freda Theis\nDivision of Personnel and Accounts - Helen J. McAllister\nDirector, Division of Maternal & Child Health - Mary S. Bitner, M.D.\nHospital Advisory Council - Mrs. Kenneth Wherry (R)\nVeterans' Advisory Commission - Mrs. Nell Krause\nChairman, Board of Control - Mrs. Ethel M. Kirwin (D)\nHastings State Hospital Advisory Board - Mrs. William Whelan, Mrs.\nCarl R. Matthiesen\nLincoln State Hospital Advisory Board - Mrs. Charles Warner (R)\nNorfolk State Hospital Advisory Board - Mrs. Leland I. Carlson\nDepartment of Public Welfare - Mrs. Gertrude Allen\nAdministrative Assistant, Board of Patrons - Mrs. Loretta Walker (R)\nBoard of Education of State Normal Schools - Mrs. Haven Smith\nCapitol Mural Commission - Mrs. Paul Gallagher, Mrs. Edna Basten\nDonald (R)\nPublic Library Commission - Mrs. Barton Kline, Mrs. Chester Hugo,\nMrs. Gordon Randall, Louise A. Nixon\nDirector, Division of Motor Fuels - Mrs. Inez Lebsock\n-10-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nNEVADA (4)\nDirector, Nevada State Welfare Department - Mrs. Barbara Coughlan\nLaw Librarian, State Library - Sarah Thompson\nSupervisor School Lunch Program - Margaret Griffin\nHistorical Society - Clara S. Beatty, Executive Secretary\nNEW HAMPSHIRE (32)\nBoard of Trustees, N. H. State University - Mary S. Brown (R)\nMilk Control Board - Mabel LaMontagne (D)\nCivil Defense Advisory Council - Mary E. Carr\nState Board of Education - Deborah Gale Bryer\nDeputy State Health Officer - Mary M. Atchison, M.D.\nDirector of Vital Statistics - Marian G. Maloon\nCommission on Alcoholism - Elizabeth K. Lincoln, Camille Lamber\nBoard of Registration of Hairdressers - Joan Rzasa, Rose Couture,\nMargaret L. Bunce\nState Tuberculosis Commission - Alice W. Sukeforth\nHospital Advisory Council - Margaret Woodbury\nBoard of Trustees, N.H. State Hospital - Katherine P. Foster\nBoard of Trustees, State Industrial School - Dorothy T. Cox\nLaconia State School Board of Trustees - Lillian R. Ross, Eva A. Speare\nState Board of Probation - Ada C. Taylor (R)\nDeputy Labor Commissioner - Ruth G. Morgan\nInspector, Department of Labor - Bernice B. Farnsworth\nDirector, State Employment Service Bureau - Abby L. Wilder\nLegislative Council - Ann B. Gordon, Marye Walsh Caron, Nelle L. Holmes\nLibrary Commission - Charlotte E. Morrison (D), Mildred Peterson McKay\nState Board of Public Welfare - Edith B. Garner (R)\nBoard of Trustees, N.H. Teachers' Retirement System - Irene Hart\nDirector of School Lunches - Ruth M. Vutter\nDepartment of Health - Ursula G. Sanders, M.D.\nDepartment of Public Welfare - Aline A. Cavanaugh, Viennie Borton\nNEW MEXICO (7)\nDirector of School Lunch Division - Vina R. Gardner\nLegislative Fiscal Analyst - Inez Gill\nLegislative Finance Commission - Inez Gill\nLibrarian, Museum - Gertrude Hill\nDepartment of Public Health - Dr. Alvina Looram\nDirector Library Extension Service - Mrs. Irene S. Peck\nDepartment of Public Welfare - Monte Mae Riley\nOF PITE Едволлоных APERT\n-11-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nNEW JERSEY (24)\nState Board of Education - Margaret T. Armstrong, Muriel Johnstone,\nMarie H. Katzenbach, Elsie Yorton\nDepartment of Education Kathryn B. Greywacz, Janet Z. McKinley,\nAnita C. Metzler\nChief, Cancer Control Stella Booth.\nCommission on Crippled Children - Irene Brown\nPresident, N. J. Neuro-Psychiatric Institute - Mrs. Wm. T. Campbell\nPublic Health Council - Mrs. Erma T. Dilkes\nChairman, Board of Beauty Culture - Ann M. Donnelly\nDivision of Vital Statistics & Administration - Marguerite F. Hall, Director\nBoard of Governors, Rutgers University - Mrs. Ruth Hickman\nPublic Trustee, Rutgers University. - Florence M. Leonard\nSuperintendent, N. J. Reformatory for Women - - Edna Mahan\nDivision of Health, Safety & Physical Education - - Janet N. Schock\nSuperintendent, State Home for Girls - Miss Helen G. Sheley\nPublic Health Council - Mrs. Kathleen Slettleland\nActing Executive Secretaryto Lieutenant Governor. - Mrs. Dorothy G. Smith\nCommission on Civil Rights - Margaret Sullivan, Margaret J. Warner\nChairman, N. J. Highway Authority - Mrs. Katherine E. White\nChief Public Health Nurse. - Gladys J. Wilson\nNEW YORK (42)\nSecretary of State . Caroline K. Simon, (R)\nAdministrative Assistant to Secretary of State - Rita Collins\nAssistant Press Secretary to Governor - Mrs. Morton Savell (R)\nProgram Associates, Executive Chamber - June Martin, Edith Baikie\nDeputy Commissioner of Commerce - Jane Todd (R)\nCivil Service Commissioner - Mary Goode Krone (R)\nCommissioner, State Insurance Fund - Constance D. Stearns\nAssistant Solicitor General - Ruth Kessler Toch, (R)\nAssistant Attorneys General - Emmeline E. Ferris (R), Margaret D. Hazel\n(R), Jean R. McCoy, C. Mildred Pafundi (R), Winifred C. Stanley (R),\nEleanor Uris (R)\nThousand Islands St. Park Commission Mrs. Ralph D. Wallace\nRegent, University of State of N. Y. - Caroline Werner Gannett\nBoard of Trustees, State University ⑉ Mrs. John A. Warner (D), Betty\nHawley Donnelly (D)\nState University Associate Counsel - Ruth V. Iles\nVice Chairman, Mental Hygiene Council - Dr. Mary E. Mercer\nCommission of Correction - Beatrice S. Burstein (D)\nWorkmen's Compensation Board - Angela R. Parisi (D), Dorothea\nDonaldson (R)\n-12-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nNEW YORK (Continued)\nCommission Against Discrimination - Mary Louise Nice (D)\nState Youth Commission - Mrs. David Levy (D)\nState Board of Mediation - Mabel Leslie, Dr. Jean T. McKelvey\nLottery Control Commission - Mrs. Carl T. Hogan (R), Mrs. John R.\nTinklepaugh (R)\nTaconic State Park Commission - Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb\nSaratoga Springs Commission - Kathryn H. Starbuck (D)\nAdvisory Council, Employment & Unemployment Insurance - Constance\nBaker Motley\nBoard of Social Welfare - Marian P. McChesney, Mrs. Donovan Farrell,\nDorothy I. Height, Marie F. Porter\nWomen's Activities State Fair. - Helen B. Vandervort (R)\nDepartment of Social Welfare - Margaret Barnard, Anne M. McGuire,\nEleanor Walsh\nDepartment of Education - Helen Diehl\nNORTH CAROLINA (4)\nChairman Rural Electrification Authority - Gwyn B. Price\nState Librarian - Mrs. Elizabeth House Hughey\nDirector, School Lunch Program - Ann W. Maley\nCommissioner, Department of Public Welfare - Dr. Ellen B. Winston\nNORTH DAKOTA (6)\nSuperintendent of Schools, Burke County - Mrs. Signa Grubb (R)\nBoard of Higher Education - - Mrs. Elvira Jestrab, Mrs. Mildred Johnson\nBoard of Public Welfare - Mrs. Earl Shaw\nChairman, State Health Council - Florence Scott\nDirector, State Library Commission - Hazel Byrnes\nOHIO (2)\nDirector, Department of Industrial Relations - Miss Margaret A. Mahoney (D)\nDirector, Department of Public Welfare - Mrs. Mary Gorman (D)\nOKLAHOMA (7)\nSupervisor, Child Welfare Division - Laura E. Dester\nActing Supervisor, Field Services, Department of Welfare - Gladys M. Neal\nState Library - - Esther M. Henke, Mrs. Leah H. Law\nHistorical Society - Mrs. Rella Looney, Mrs. Dorothy Williams\nLegislative Reference Librarian - Geraldine Smith\n-13-\nOF SUL Elserihower\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nOREGON (5)\nState Library - Eloise Ebert, Constance Grier\nUnemployment Compensation Commission - Cecelia P. Galey\nPublic Welfare Commission - Jeanne Jewett\nDirector School Lunch Program - Laura P. Wells\nPENNSYLVANIA (6)\nAttorney General of Pennsylvania - Anne Alpern (D)\nSecretary of Public Welfare - Ruth Grigg Horting (D)\nState Civil Service Commission - Miss Susan H. Baker\nPennsylvania Securities Commission - Mrs. Elizabeth Zeidman\nDepartment of Public Instruction - Elizabeth Holt\nActing Commissioner of Children and Youth - Eleanore Meckelnburg\nRHODE ISLAND (9)\nAssociate Justice of Superior Court - Florence Kerins Murray\nCommissioner of Minimum Wage - Margaret F. Ackroyd\nChairman, Board of Review, Employment Security - Margaret M. Sullivan\nBoard of Elections - Alice D. Violet\nSupervisor, School Lunch Program - Mrs. Elizabeth S. Ferguson\nLegislative Reference Librarian - Mabel G. Johnson\nAdministrator, Bureau for Blind - Eleanor M. Johnson\nAssistant, In Charge of Archives - Mary T. Quinn\nState Librarian - Grace M. Sherwood\nSOUTH CAROLINA (5)\nDepartment of Health - Florence S. Dunn, Administrator, Mental Health\nSupervisor School Lunch Program - Kathleen Gaston\nLibrarian, Supreme Court - Mrs. Emma H. Motte\nLibrarian, State Library - Emily B. Reynolds\nChief, Division Child Welfare - Mrs. Deborah M. Southerlin\nSOUTH DAKOTA (5)\nSecretary of State - Miss Selma Sandness (D)\nState Auditor - Mrs. Harriet Horning (D)\nCommissioner, Employment Security - Miss Goldie Wells\nDirector, Child Welfare Division - Grace Martin\nSecretary, State Library Commission - Mercedes Mackay\n-14-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nTENNESSEE (3)\nCommissioner, Department of Public Welfare - Mrs. Frank C. Scott\nAct. Chief of Public Assistance - Mrs. Alberta Boyd\nDirector, Public Libraries Division - Martha Parks\nTEXAS (49)\nCommissioner of Deeds - Betty E. McPherson\nFiremen's Pension Commissioner - Mrs. Marie Hudson\nBoard of Directors, Texas College of Arts & Industries - Mrs. Frank Lewis\nTexas Commission on Higher Education - Mrs. J. F. Boren\nBoard of Regents, North Texas State College - Miss Emma Mae Brotze\nBoard of Regents, State Teachers College - Miss Elizabeth Koch\nBoard of Regents, Texas Women's University - Mrs. Edgar Deen, Mrs.\nJohn Hazlewood, Mrs. Nelda C. Stark\nBoard of Regents, University of Texas - Mrs. Charles Devall\nState Board of Tuberculosis Nurses Examiners - Miss Mildred Blair, Mrs.\nTravis McNair, Mrs. Brown Kendrick\nState Board of Trustees, Teacher Retirement System - Miss Lois Gray\nState Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners - Evelyn Bohls, Mrs. Maggie\nBrice, Mrs. R. E. Seagler, Mrs. Adele Cherry, Mrs. Verlie Graham,\nMrs. Marie S. French\nState Board of Nurse Examiners - Mrs. Faye Saye McGuffey, Mrs. Wanda\nReed, Sister Rose Francis, Miss Bernice Johnson\nState Board of Mansion Supervisors - Mrs. Edgar Tobin, Mrs. Lem\nScarbrough, Mrs. J. S. Abercrombie\nLibrary and Historical Commission - Mrs. Albert R. Cauthorn\nBoard for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools - Mrs. Howard E. Butt\nAdvisory Hospital Council - Sister M. Emery Kavanaugh, Mrs. Weldon\nStrader, Mrs. L. E. Dudley, Mrs. George A. Hill, Jr.\nTexas State Historical Survey Committee - Miss Ima Hogg (R), Mrs. Lane\nTaylor, Mrs. Mike Butler, Mrs. E. A. Peden, Mrs. Max Weinert\nState Board of Hairdressers & Cosmetologists - Mrs. Bess Monk, Mrs.\nJames L. Moore,\nGood Neighbor Commission of Texas - Mrs. Kelly McAdams\nFannin State Park Commission - Mrs. Hatty Swickheimer, Mrs. Louise\nDonoghue\nCredit Union Advisory Commission - Mrs. Bessie Heard\nState Commission for the Blind - Miss Nellie Louise Scales\nDirector, State Legislative Reference Library - Doris H. Connerly\nDepartment of Public Library - Rosalind Giles\nCommissioner, Bureau of Laboratory Statistics - Mrs. M. B. Morgan\n-15-\nThe Light Dwight ? JOHNSON\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nUTAH (32)\nBoard of Alcoholism - - Mrs. Ruth Mumford (R)\nCouncil of Defense - Mrs. Walter C. Ewing (D)\nBoard of Education - Mrs. Madeline B. Wirthlin (R), Mrs. Edna Snow\nCannon (D)\nAdvisory Council, Schools for the Deaf and Blind - Mrs. Vera Gee (R)\nState Course of Study Committee - Mrs. Whitney Smith (R)\nAdvisory Board for Driver Education - Mrs. Arvil Stark (Non-partisan)\nFair Association - Mrs. E. A. Parson (R), Evelyn Hansen (D)\nAdvisory Council, Nursing Homes, Convalescent Homes, Etc. - Mrs.\nGrace Bywater (R), Mrs. Bertha D. Thornell (D), Mrs. Helen Adams (R)\nHistorical Society - Juanita Brooks (D), Mrs. A. C. Jensen (D)\nHospital Advisory Council - Sister Mary Margaret (R), Mrs. Thelma\nBerkheimer (R)\nInstitute of Fine Arts Mrs. Rulon Clark (R), Mrs. A. L. Beeley (Non-\npartisan), Mrs. Alice M. Bailey (R), Mrs. Harold Christensen (R),\nMrs. Fred Froerer (R)\nLibrary Commission - Mrs. Dan Jones (R), Miss Lucy Phillips (R)\nMerit System Council - Mrs. O. N. Malmquist (Non-partisan)\nDepartment of Public Welfare - Miss Lorraine Cook (R)\nUniversity of Utah Board of Regents - Mrs. A. U. Miner (R)\nUtah State University, Trustees Board - Mrs. Fern B. Ercanbrack (R),\nMrs. Eve S. Ashton (R)\nMental Health Committee - Mrs. Cecil H. Baker (R)\nCommittee To Study The Mental Defective - Mrs. I. R. Morrison (D)\nFulbright Scholarship Committee - Mrs. W. O. Pell (R)\nCivil Rights Committee - Mrs. Deliah M. Abbott (R)\nVERMONT (17)\nSecretary of Real Estate Commission Mrs. Josephine M.R. Marchi\nDeputy Secretary of State - Helen E. Burbank (R)\nDirector of Arts & Crafts Advisory Commission - Ruth W. Coburn (R)\nSuperintendent of Women's Reformatory - Helen M. Koltonski (R)\nDirector of Public Assistance - Mary F. Gibson\nDirector of Child Welfare Services - Frances M. Bates\nDirector of Blind Services - Virginia Cole (R)\nExecutive Director of State Recreation Board - Theresa E. Brungardt (R)\nAdvertising Director of Development Commission - Mary Perry\nExecutive Secretary of Free Public Library - Jane L. Hobson (R)\nExecutive Secretary of Teachers Retirement Board - Charlotte L. Merriman\nEducational T.V. Commission - Mrs. Helen B. Laurence, Mrs. Elsie\nA. Cowles\nMember, Teachers Retirement Board - Miss Esther J. Vrie\nChairman, Free Public Library Commission - Mrs. Hazel M. Wills\nBoard of Social Welfare - Mrs. Bessie Bodine\nState Board of Education . Mrs. Leona G. Phillips\n-16-\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nVIRGINIA (6)\nSecretary of the Commonwealth - Miss Martha Bell Conway (D)\nMotion Picture Censor Board - Mrs. Russell F. Wagers (D), Mrs. Lollie\nC. Whitehead (D), Mrs. Margaret K. Gregory (D)\nHead, Extension Division, State Library - - Florence Yoder\nSupervisor, School Lunch Program - - Helen G. Ward\nWASHINGTON (4)\nAssistant Secretary of State - - Jean C. Dunker\nDirector, Department of Licenses - Mrs. Louise S. Taylor\nState Librarian . - Maryan E. Reynolds\nSupervisor, School Lunch Program - - Agnes R. Fitzgerald\nWEST VIRGINIA (4)\nDepartment of Finance & Administration - Martha Ford\nChief, Division of Child Welfare - Lillian Nagy\nDirector, Department of Mental Health - Dr. Margaret T. Rose\nDirector, Division of Maternal and Child Hygiene - Margaret Waggoner\nWISCONSIN (27)\nRetirement Fund Board of Trustees - Margaret L. Clark\nState Radio Council - Lulu Radlund\nFree Library Commission - Janice S. Kee, Hilda Cavanaugh, Mrs.\nElla M. Veslak\nDirector of Nursing Education - Adele G. Stahl\nState Board of Health - Dr. Amy Louise Hunter, Dr. Elizabeth Baldwin\nGovernor's Commission on Human Rights - Mrs. Rebecca C. Barton,\nMrs. Melvin Bonn, Mrs. Gloria Downing, Mrs. Ulysses G. Lindsay,\nMrs. Carl Nordhagen, Mrs. William M. O'Donnell, Stella Pederson\nState Board of Nursing - Ruth Coe, Sylvia Haubrich, Sister M. Regula,\nIone M. Rowley, Jeanette R. Welsch\nState Board of Public Welfare - Mrs. C. R. Beck, Mrs. Karl Kleinpel, Mrs.\nWallace Lomoe\nBoard of Regents, State College - Anita V. Hinrichs, Mrs. Erna McIntyre,\nMary M. Walter\nState Board of Vocational & Adult Education - Mrs. Erna Cartwright\nWYOMING (30)\nDirector, State Personnel Department - Mrs. Pauline Morgan\nDeputy State Superintendent, Public Instruction - Katherine Vehar\nEisenhowal\nState Board of Education - Miss Maude Long\nLIBITORY\n-17-\nTHE\nWOMEN IN STATE APPOINTIVE POSITIONS\n1959\nWYOMING (Continued)\nAssistant Director, Women's Activities, Civil Defense - Mrs. Margaret\nPeterson\nAssistant Attorney General - Mrs. Ellen Crowley\nSecretary, Board of Cosmetology - Mrs. Hazel Anderson\nEsther Morris Memorial Commission - Mrs. Jean Morgan, Mrs. Barbara\nA. Cross, Mrs. Irene Patterson\nState Board of Health - - Mrs. Dan Kirkbride\nState Board of Nursing - Miss Gertrude Gould, Emily J. Tuttle\nSuperintendent, State Children's Home at Casper - - Nell Richmond\nDeputy State Land Commissioner - Mrs. Maxine B. Rhoades\nArchives and Historical Department - Lola M. Homsher, Henryetta Berry,\nMrs. Margaret Archibald Hall, Mrs. Leora Peters, Mrs. Lora Jewett,\nMrs. Esther Mockler, Mrs. Lorraine McGeath Stadius\nState Librarian - Miss May Gillies\nAdministrator, Microfilm Department - Miss Dorothy Taylor\nWyoming Retirement Board - Miss Emma Duis\nUniversity of Wyoming, Board of Trustees ⑉ Mrs. Lorna Patterson, Mrs.\nNeil Bush\nWyoming Youth Council - Mrs. W. H. Douglass, Mrs. Vida Armitage,\nRuth M. Skeeters\nAuditor, Office of Auditor - Minnie A. Mitchell\nPUERTO RICO (10)\nHead, Employment and Migration Service - Petroamerica Pagan\nHead, Public Welfare Division - Aida G. dePagan\nHead, Legal Division, Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority - Aida\nChettini\nChairlady, Industrial Commission - Raquel Nigaglioni\nVice-Chairman, Board of Commissioners of Capitol of San Juan - Josefina\nA. Batlle\nLibrarian, Department of Justice - Mrs. Gladys Cruz\nLibrarian, College of Law - Margaret Hall\nChief, Bureau of Mental Health - Mrs. Dolores G. LaCaro\nChief, Bureau of Maternal & Infant Hygiene - Dr. Dolores M. Pinero\nLibrarian, Supreme Court - Maria E. Vega\nVIRGIN ISLANDS (3)\nSupervising Librarian - Nina A. C. Corniero\nDirector Employment Service - Mrs. E. Louise Scott\nLibrarian, Government of Virgin Islands - Florence A. Williams\n-18-"
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