Katherine Burns Mabry
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Katherine Burns Mabry (1886–1958) was one of New Mexico’s first female lawyers.[1][2][3]
Mabry was born on August 10, 1886, in Kansas to Enoch M. Burns and Sarah Emily Powell.[4] She was the second wife of State Senator Thomas J. Mabry, and received her law degree from Columbia University in New York.[5] 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.[6][7] She died on September 9, 1958, in New Mexico.[4]