Pointer read the law for seven years and passed her examination in 1926, making her Colorado's first female water lawyer.
Following her admittance to the bar, Pointer worked with her law partner Fred Sabin in Pueblo, Colorado till his death in 1931.
[3] During her career, Pointer worked on projects that attempted to solve and settle water disputes between Colorado and Kansas on the Arkansas River.
Signed in 1949 the Arkansas River Compact settled a number of disputes over water rights between Kansas and Colorado that had existed since 1901.
In part, her prominence in Colorado water law led Governor Edwin C. Johnson to appoint Pointer to serve as a member of the 1933 Caddoa Commission.