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Maria Concepcion "Concha" Ortiz y Pino de Kleven (born 23 May 1910) was born to a prominent family of politicians in Galisteo, New Mexico. In 1936 she became the sixth generation of her family to serve in the New Mexico legislature.^[1] Her father, Jose Ortiz y Pino, spent 10 years in the state House of Representatives. In 1941, at age 30, she became Democratic majority whip, the first woman to hold such a position in state government.^[2] President Kennedy appointed her to the National Council of Upward Bound. Ortiz y Pino founded the state's first educational program dedicated to traditional Hispano crafts, the Colonial Hispanic Crafts School, in Galisteo in 1929.^[3] She advocated for bilingual education, disabled and women's rights.

In 2004 Governor Richardson named the building for the Office of the State Engineer after her. She died in Santa Fe September 30, 2006.

Early life and education

Born May 23, 1910 to Jose Ortiz y Pino and Paula Ortiz an elite land-owning family in Galisteo, New Mexico. Her father taught her early about expectations of services to the community due to their position of power. He also passed down the family's strong sense of political legislation and following his footsteps she became the sixth generation to serve in the New Mexico legislature. During her formative years as a youth Pino was shaped by her grandmother who served as village doctor, counselor and social worker. This exposed her to the social economic and political problems of mainly poverty-stricken Mexican Americans in her city. She was well groomed for political life as she accompanied her father to legislative sessions during his ten-year tenure in the state house.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

She graduated high school from Loretto Academy in 1928. In 1929 while she was 20 she pursued her father to fund an artisan vocational school Colonial Hispanic Crafts Society of Galisteo in her hometown “l told my father I have to do something to help people make money it was a way in which I contributed in providing help to the poor and the aged and the means by which I helped people become proud of their Hispanic culture. I feel very fortunate in having been a part of that group of creative individuals.” (Concha! pg.248) She organized villagers that studied traditional Hispanic crafts, such as blankets, embroidery, leather goods, and the furniture. the venture was so successful that it caught the attention of the New Mexico Department of Vocational Education which sent six people for training . This Program provided a suitable wage for family's hit hard by the Great Depression.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

It closed a year later after funding dried up. After taking college classes at the University of New Mexico and she received her Bachelor's in 1942 as the first degreed recipient in Inter-American Affairs. She pushed for legislation for the creation of the School.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

New Mexico State legislator

After her vocational school closed, she felt “on a personal level, I could walk away and do something else”. (concha! pg. 55) With encouragement from her father and with her statewide campaign experience for the 1932 president Franklin Roosevelt under her belt, she switched party affiliations to Democrat and campaigned for a legislative seat. At the age of 26 she became the sixth generation of her family to serve in legislature, the youngest American woman elected to state office and the third Hispanic woman legislator in the United States. In her first term she earned the respect of her colleagues with her determination, leadership and intelligence as she was assigned to five committees; corporations and banks, educational intuitions, judiciary, livestock and roads. This experience helped to hone her skills and during her last term she served as the first female Democratic majority whip in the New Mexico House of Representatives.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

In her tenure she had a dim view of several social welfare measures, even thought she was a new Deal Democrat. She voted against state amendments prohibiting child labor and state regulation of hours for working women. Pino did not consider herself a feminist or claimed to be one, but she proposed a bill that would make women eligible for jury service, the measure was killed but would pass the next time it was brought for a vote. She introduced a civil state merit system for state job due to her concern for young women working in the capital. “I had seen men abuse girls and I wanted a merit system …girls had gone to work in the capital and had ended up with babies (Concha! pg. 186) “Her next passage was inspired by her resentment of punishment she received from The Loretto Academy while speaking Spanish. She used that anger to pen a bill requiring the teaching of Spanish language for Anglo and Hispanic seventh and eighth grade students. She was opposed by LULAC and was openly kicked out of the group after they publicly opposed her measure. This was saddening to her and her father who took pride in the ability to speak two languages, the Spanish public did not love the idea as there was a push to gain civil rights by assimilating in to the Anglo main stream culture. She enlisted the help of some well-respected educators such as Dr. Aurelio Espinosa a professor at Sandford University and New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez, they all believed in creating Americans …by encouraging boys and girls to vote. In her mind her bilingual bill would help New Mexico students in the process of becoming American citizens. “I believe that people become more valuable and more educated when they knew more than one language “(Concha! pg. 62). At the age of 32 her last term ended in 1942 after three two-year terms in the House of Representatives.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

Presidential appointments

President Kennedy appointed her to the Nation Council of Upward Bound. The Upward Bound program provides high school students access to mentors, after school tutoring, academic advising and opportunities for career and leadership development. Some Latinos struggle if their parents don't speak English and can't help with studying, these programs provide the student with support services and give them equity. Ortiz y Pino was a perfect fit for this position with her ambitious legislative push for education and her understanding of its importance in American civic life this was a fit for her professional and personal. President Lyndon Johnson asked her to serve on the national commission on Architectural Barriers which created the 1968 standards issued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that address access to buildings and sites nationwide in new construction and alterations. Similar standards apply to building and sites funded by the Federal government under Architectural Barriers Act (ABA). She also served on the National Humanities Council as an Appointee of President Gerald Ford. After leaving public life she served on several community board up until her death on September 30, 2006.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

Personal life

In 1943 she married her favorite professor Victor Kleven. She ran the family ranch for several years in Agua Verde until 1956 when her husband died.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Ruiz|first1=Vicki|title=Latinas in the United States, set: A Historical Encyclopedia|date=2006|publisher=Indian University Press|location=Bloomington|isbn=0253346800}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven, 96, Politician, Is Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/us/09pino.html|accessdate=9 June 2017|agency=Associated Press|publisher=New York Times|date=October 9, 2006}}
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Coulter|first1=Lane|last2=Dixon|first2=Maurice Jr.|title=New Mexican tinwork, 1840-1940|date=1990|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|location=Albuquerque|isbn=0826311806|page=141}}

5 : Hispanic and Latino American women in politics|1910 births|2006 deaths|Members of the New Mexico House of Representatives|New Mexico Democrats