Minora Ellis Kibbe (née Minora Ellis) was a social reformer and suffragist from California.^[1] She ran for a seat on the San Francisco area school board in 1908,^[1][2] and for California's 36th State Assembly district in 1918.^[3][4]

Kibbe studied medicine for many years, eventually completing a doctor of medicine degree at Johns Hopkins University.^[5]

Kibbe ran for a seat in the California Assembly in 1918.^[6] This part of an organized effort by women's rights activists in California to have a woman run for a seat in the Assembly from every district throughout the state.^[6]

Kibbe was a practising physician.^[7]

Kibbe was a noted California suffragist who frequently lectured on the topic of women's suffrage. In 1904 Kibbe served as the president of the Forty-First District Political Equality Club.^[8] She also served on the executive board of the California Equal Suffrage Association.^[9] Kibbe attended a number of gatherings where she heard Susan B. Anthony speak including one in San Francisco in 1905.^[10] At that gathering she organized with numerous other suffragists including Mary Sperry.^[11] In August 1911 she gave a talk in Oakland about the suffrage amendment on the California ballot that year.^[12] California suffragist Selina Solomons praised her activism in her book "How We Won the Vote in California."^[13]

Kibbe was born in Unionville, Nevada. She was married to George Kibbe, and had a son named George Ellis Kibbe. She lived in Oakland.^[5]

• List of California suffragists
• National American Women's Suffrage Association
• Women's suffrage in California