page_title: Kate Barnard
section_title: Elected Charities and Corrections Commissioner
hierarchical_section_title: Kate Barnard / Elected Charities and Corrections Commissioner
caption_attribution_description: 1912 of Kate Barnard, then-Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections.
context_page_description: Catherine Ann "Kate" Barnard was the first woman to be elected as a state official in Oklahoma, and the second woman to be elected to a statewide public office in the United States, in 1907. She served as the first Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four-year terms, the only position that the 1907 Oklahoma Constitution permitted a woman to hold.
  Before being elected to office, Barnard had worked as a teacher and in clerical patronage positions in the territorial government. She was also heavily involved in charity work.
caption: Barnard in 1912.
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