Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven was the Matriarch of a 300 year old New Mexico Legacy. She was born only two years before statehood. In 1936 at the age of 26 Concha was the youngest American woman elected to State office serving in the New Mexico House of Representations. By 1941 at the age of 30 she became the Democratic majority whip, the first woman to hold such a position in state government. She championed woman's rights, bi-lingual education, and equal funding for urban and rural schools. President Kennedy appointed her to the National Humanities Council as an appointee of President Ford. She served on 60 community boards while managing her family's 100,00 acre ranch in Galisteo New Mexico. Thus, Concha Ortiz y Pino was a remarkable “Larger than Life” woman who had more than just a political career.