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Katherine Burns Mabry (1886–1958) was one of
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’s first female lawyers. Mabry was born on August 10, 1886, in
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to Enoch M. Burns and Sarah Emily Powell. She was the second wife of State Senator
Thomas J. Mabry Thomas Jewett Mabry (October 17, 1884 December 23, 1962) was an American attorney, politician and judge, who was chief justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1939–46) and the 14th governor of New Mexico (1947–51). Career Mabry attended t ...
, and received her law degree from
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in
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. In 1917, she became the first female admitted to practice law in New Mexico. She thereafter practiced law in the office of her husband, who was also an attorney. She died on September 9, 1958, in New Mexico.


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List of first women lawyers and judges in New Mexico This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in New Mexico. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their ...


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