Northside Independent School District - San Antonio, TX

Katie N. Reed has served on the Board since 1990 and has served five terms as President. She now serves as Chair of the Academic Committee and is a member of the Building and Policy and Intergovernmental Relations committees. A Past President of the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), Reed currently is the NISD delegate for the TASB convention and is the Board representative to the National School Boards Association (NSBA) Affiliate Advocacy Network

Reed is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Management Committee for the Alamo Area Council of Governments, an association of elected officials from Bexar County and 11 surrounding counties. Reed also serves on several committees for the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of three neighborhood associations and is a member and past Chair of the Salvation Army Advisory Board and the Women and Children's Advisory Committee

Reed is a recipient of the Dolph and Janey Briscoe Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Way for her numerous community volunteer activities. In 2003, Reed was inducted into the San Antonio Women's Hall of Fame, and in 2005, she was recognized at the San Antonio Business Journal's Women's Leadership Awards. She also is an Honorary Life Member of the National PTA.

Reed grew up and attended public schools in Omaha, Nebraska, graduated from The University of Missouri at Columbia, and taught in public schools in Missouri and Oklahoma. Katie's husband, Jim, is the President of the San Antonio Medical Foundation, and they have two grown children, Philip and Holly - both Clark High School and Texas A&M graduates - and three grandchildren. They are active members of First Presbyterian Church.