Katherine joined Susman Godfrey after clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Mark J. Bennett.  Before clerking, she attended Harvard Law School, where she served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review and the Head Writer of the Harvard Law School Parody.

Prior to law school, Katherine graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University, where she majored in both English Honors and Spanish Honors.  She was awarded the Guy T. Carswell Scholarship for academic promise, leadership, and talent, and she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.