Kate serves as the Confidential Assistant to the Deputy Secretary and the Chief of Staff of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs. She joined the Department in 2015, and brings over 25 years of executive-level operational support. She is an expert in managing the complex demands of the senior leadership team, while handling information with confidentiality and professionalism. Kate serves as the Administrator of the Title 29 Educational Benefit Program, a tuition waiver program for dependents of Louisiana veterans. She also serves as the Telecommunications Coordinator, responsible for facilitating voice, data, and IT related functions for LDVA.
Before beginning her career with LDVA, Kate worked in the legal field, serving as a paralegal and office manager for over fifteen years with a New Orleans-based law firm located in Baton Rouge.
Kate served as the President of the Junior League of Baton Rouge, responsible for the oversight of all aspects of the 501(c)(3) charity organization, and she continues to serve as a Sustaining Advisor in various capacities. She served as the Diversity and Cultural Inclusion representative at the DCI Summit of the Association of Junior Leagues International in New York City. She is a graduate of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Leadership Baton Rouge program, and attended Louisiana State University, where she was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Kate is a member of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
She proudly comes from a family of veterans: her father served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, 8th Air Force, 95th Heavy Bombardment Group, as a B-17 pilot in WWII; her mother was a survivor of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; and, her brother is an Army veteran, having served two tours of duty in Vietnam.
A native of Maine, she has lived in Baton Rouge for most of her life, and enjoys her time with her family at her home in Maine. She and her husband are the proud parents of three grown children.
