Kathryn Malstrom

Kathryn Malstrom
Kathryn Malstrom (Democrat) represented [the 27th] district of Pierce County in the State Senate for two terms, from 1932 to 1940.

Born 1888, in Minnesota, Malstrom made her home in Tacoma where she raised three sons. President of the Washington Congress of the P.T.A. prior to her election, it was Malstrom's ambition to remedy illiteracy, to provide child welfare and to improve school funding through legislative action.

In the Legislature, she was a member of the Appropriations, and the Education and Educational Institutions committees.

--Political Pioneers, The Women Lawmakers