Now in less public circumstances, Austin addressed the Baháʼí national convention of the spring of 1940, and the 1940 US Census marked the monthly income for each mother and daughter earning circa $2400 recorded in Cincinnati - about $42k in 2018 dollars. 1941 opens with Austin among a free legal aid bureau of the National Bar Association in January, and contributing a youth class at Louhelen Baháʼí School in Michigan in July, Austin was among first 58 women lawyers in US and presently a lawyer for DC Recorder of Deeds, and became the 3rd black woman to teach law in US when she taught at the Robert H. Terrell Law School circa 1941. Continuing her work for the Deltas she presented a “Jobs analysis and opportunities project”(aka OPA) at Delta meeting in 1941. In November she also joined the Maryland, Virginia and DC Regional Teaching Committee responsible for overseeing efforts to promulgate the Baháʼí Faith in that area. The year closed out for Austin with a Christmas Delta's meeting in Detroit.