She then attended the Massachusetts Art School in Boston and studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, France.

In November she was elected as one Minnesota's first four-woman legislators, alongside Hannah Kempfer, Sue Metzger Dickey Hough, and Myrtle Cain.

[3] Her district, which covered part of downtown Minneapolis to the North Side up to about Lowry Avenue, returned her to the House in every election year until she retired in 1945.

As the chair of the public welfare and social legislation committee, she introduced bills that outlawed "loan sharks" charging high interest rates that she believed helped keep people in poverty.

"My observations abroad brought out the need of independent citizenship for women, not be interwoven with that of men by reason of marriage or other conditions."