Ernestine Durán Evans (September 17, 1917 – June 9, 2010)[a] was a Spanish American legislator and civil servant.

[4][3] The daughter of a rancher and a schoolteacher, she was born in Alamosa, Colorado and grew up on a ranch in El Rito, New Mexico.

[3] She was educated at the Spanish American Normal School and earned a teaching certificate.

In 1945, she became an administrator in the New Mexico land office and, in 1953, a manager of finance for the state board of education.

Evans was administrative secretary for two state governors and a member of the legislative council.