Louise Holland Coe (November 26, 1894 – March 13, 1985) was the first woman elected to the New Mexico Senate and its first female president pro tempore.
[5] Later on, in 1938, a local newspaper stated that after she married, she "began to live on a ranch in the Ruidoso Valley in the White Mountains of the south central section of New Mexico.
Motivated by this Louise Coe decided to teach here and give these children who were her friends and neighbors a better opportunity.
For 12 years, she was the chairman of the Senate Education and "was influential in securing legislation providing free textbooks, larger libraries, higher teacher qualifications and salaries, and designating sales and severance taxes as school revenues.
"[7] Louise Holland Coe and her husband Wilbur may eventually have moved to Glencoe, New Mexico, an unincorporated community nearby.
[8] Coe died in 1985 from unstated natural causes, at Casa Maria Health Care Center in Roswell, New Mexico.