Our Team
Our experienced professionals have diverse specialties, skills, and backgrounds, but one thing unites us all. We believe that financial well-being should be available to everyone, and we work tirelessly to deliver it.
Kathleen M Winslow 1947-2022
Kathleen enjoyed a very full life. She cared deeply about women’s issues and cultivated a wide circle of close friends. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, auntie, friend.
Kathleen was born to Orville G. and Theresa G. (Hines) Winslow in Bremerton, Washington in 1947, the second of three daughters. Her early years were spent in rural Washington until the family relocated in 1954 to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where her father had been recruited to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Kathleen was educated in the public schools there and went on to the University of New Mexico where she earned her BS degree in Biology with minors in Chemistry and English. After a stint working in research labs at the UNM School of Medicine, she graduated from UNM School of Law in 1974 and became a member of the federal bar and the New Mexico state bar in the same year, followed by the Iowa state bar in 1975.
Kathleen was a resident of New Mexico since 1954 and a resident of Albuquerque since 1965. After graduating from law school, she worked as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Law fellow in Iowa and in Albuquerque for two years before opening a private practice in Albuquerque. During law school, she was twice awarded the Margaret Keiper Dailey award for community service.
In 1982, after leaving the practice of law, Kathleen moved on to begin her career as a financial advisor, the business would eventually be known as Winslow Wood & Associates.
When asked why she changed her career path to financial planning, Kathleen would speak of the large gap in financial education for women and how women were often ignored when it came to divorce, settlement money and retirement planning, she wanted to make a difference, and she did!
Kathleen was a member of the New Mexico Women's Foundation and was a founding board member of that organization. Past community activities included participation in the formation of the Rape Crisis Center, the Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence (including incorporation of that entity as a non-profit), the New Mexico Women’s Foundation, and membership on their respective boards. She also worked to establish the UNM Women's Center and the UNM Child Care Center while in undergraduate and graduate school. She was a long serving member of Board of Directors at The Crossroads for Women, and handled endowments for several non-profit corporations in Albuquerque. Later she became involved on an ad-hoc basis with the Goromonzi Project, a US and Zimbabwe non-profit organization serving AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe.
Kathleen was smart and kind, ethical and honest, and moral—qualities that permeated her personal and professional life to the benefit of us all. She believed in and fought for democracy and justice all her life.
- Your presence is deeply missed, and your memory will stay with us always.