Kate joined the Indiana State Police as a Non-Enforcement/Civilian employee in 1987. She currently serves as a Secretary IV for Area II and is assigned to the Ft. Wayne Post.
No stranger to law enforcement, her husband, Scott, is retired from the Huntington City Police Department and currently works at the Federal Building in Ft. Wayne. They have a total of four children: Stephanie, who is in the nursing program at IPFW; Brian, who is a senior in high school and will attend IPFW in the fall; Carrie, who is getting married in May and Kyle, who resides in Lafayette.
Her free time is spent working on the landscaping and finishing the basement of the home they built in 2005. They also hope to build a barn so Scott can have a workshop and they can have horses.
Her goal in becoming the first member of the ITA board to represent non-enforcement/civilian employees is to familiarize civilian employees with the benefits of ITA membership and to build membership with civilians.
She wants her fellow civilian employees to realize how much the ITA does for the ISP family, as well as for the communities where they live.