As TRSL Director, Katherine provides executive leadership and management to the largest public retirement system in the state with $25 billion in assets and more than 213,000 members. 

She has been with TRSL since 2008 and has held the positions of policy planner, deputy general counsel, executive liaison officer, and deputy director.

Prior to joining TRSL, Katherine was as an assistant attorney general in the Civil Division of the Louisiana Department of Justice. Among her roles there, she served as the education section chief. Katherine has also held the position of chief of staff at the Department of Education-Recovery School District and was a policy consultant at the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).

She is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association. 

Katherine holds a bachelor of arts degree in government from Nicholls State University and received her juris doctorate degree from Louisiana State University.