Kate Wood Hall has worked in Kentucky politics and government for more than 15 years and has been a member of the Commonwealth Alliances team for more than eight years. Kate focuses on education, health care, technology and budget policy, but has expertise in a broad array of policy areas from her extended time working for Governor Steve Beshear.

Kate served as former Governor Steve Beshear’s Legislative Liaison and Director of the Governor’s Office of Legislative Services for seven years prior to joining Commonwealth Alliances. During her time in this position, she was the Governor’s senior advisor on issues relating to the legislature and state legislation and worked on key policy achievements including curbing prescription drug abuse, raising Kentucky’s dropout age to 18, and addressing state government’s pension crisis. She also actively worked with the Governor and other members of his senior staff and Cabinet Officials on policy development and strategic decision making.

In 2004, Kate began her work in politics working on a congressional election in Alabama and as PAC director for minority leadership in the Virginia House of Delegates. Throughout that time Kate continued to grow her relationships in Kentucky by working as a fundraising event consultant for the Kentucky Democratic Party. In 2007, Kate decided to fully return to her home state to work as Deputy Finance Director for candidates running for Governor of Kentucky.

Kate earned a BA in Political Science from Transylvania University in 2004. She was a Hansard Scholar at the London School of Economics in 2003 prior to completing her degree. In 2013, she completed her MBA at the University of Louisville College of Business.

Kate was raised in Brownsville, Kentucky where her parents and much of family still reside. Kate and her husband, David, live in Louisville and are the proud parents of three beautiful young children, Katherine James, Truman Matthew and Cordelia Wood.