Olga Katherine Torkelsen Hurley (March 30, 1921 – February 21, 2021) was the secretary to Alaska Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening from 1944 until his departure from office in 1953.

She was married in 1944 and then became the executive secretary to the governor that year, even working while she was pregnant, until Gruening's departure from his post in 1953.

[2] Hurley became the Secretary of the Territorial Senate, then the Chief Clerk to Alaska's Constitutional Convention in 1955–1956.

[4] She also was the executive director of the Alaska Commission on the Status of Women and the President of the State Board of Education for seven years.

In 1960, she married Jim Hurley,[6] a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention and a member of the first state legislature.

[9] She died near family in a private memory care facility in Portland, Oregon where she lived the final years of her life.