Katie N. Reed has served on the Board of Trustees since 1990 and is serving her fifth term as President. During her tenure as a Board member, Reed has served as Chair of the Finance, Building, and Policy and Intergovernmental Relations committees. She is a Past President of the Texas Association of School Boards and represented Texas at many national meetings.

Reed is a Board member of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and serves on a number of its committees. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Alamo Area Council of Governments. Reed is a recipient of the Dolph and Janey Briscoe Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Way for her numerous community volunteer activities and was recognized at the San Antonio Business Journal's Women's Leadership Awards in 2005.

Reed also is a member and past Chair of the Salvation Army Advisory Board, the Women's Auxiliary and the Women and Children's Advisory Committee. She is a member of three neighborhood associations, and in 2003 was inducted into the San Antonio Women's Hall of Fame. She is also 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.