In 1954, she was elected as a Democratic state committee-member from the sixth precinct. In 1955, she was elected as a committee-member from the 1st ward in Tucson, Arizona. During the 1956 presidential election she served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Tucson Democratic Central Committee by chairman W. Evans Bagley in 1957, and later named to the board of directors of the Tucson Democratic Central Committee in 1959.