Kathy worked in the State Attorney General’s Office in Fresno while in law school and awaiting bar results. In December of 1999, she was hired as an attorney. She became Supervising Deputy Attorney General in Fresno in 2009, then moved to the same position in the Sacramento Office in 2016. She does primarily criminal appellate and federal habeas corpus cases. She has argued a number of cases before the California Supreme Court and the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. Kathy taught first year Research & Writing, Advanced Research & Writing, and Moot Court at San Joaquin College of Law.