As an Army Officer in the Corps of Engineers, Katherine held various assignments in troop units and within the civilian side of the Corps. She was an environmental engineer/project manager, a program manager, and a Deputy Commander of an Engineer District. After retirement, she worked for a short time, in an environmental testing laboratory. Katherine taught engineering and mathematics in a high school and then found her current job at the US EPA where she works as an environmental engineer/project manager in the TSCA PCB remediation program. She is a licensed professional engineer in Virginia.