Concha Ortiz y Pino

Maria Concepcion "Concha" Ortiz y Pino de Kleven was a Democrat from New Mexico.

Ortiz y Pino was born to a prominent family of politicians in Galisteo, New Mexico on May 23, 1910. In 1936 she became the sixth generation of her family to serve in the New Mexico legislature. 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. 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. In 2004 Governor Richardson named the building for the Office of the State Engineer after her. She died in Santa Fe September 30, 2006.