Kathryn was called to the Bar in 1987 and was appointed Silk in 2006. She is currently the Deputy Chair of the Crime and Corruption Commission and a Deputy President of the Administrative Review Tribunal (part time).
She was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the TC Beirne School of Law University of Queensland until 2020 and continues to lecture there.

Kathryn is a specialist in Public Law, Inquiries and Inquests, Regulatory and disciplinary matters, medico-legal matters, human rights and discrimination together with a long-standing practice in family law and child protection proceedings.

She has appeared in 6 Royal Commissions/Commissions of Inquiry: the Public Hospitals Commission of Inquiry (as Counsel for the Medical Board), the Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry (as Senior Counsel Assisting), the Barrett Adolescent Centre Commission of Inquiry (as lead Counsel for a health authority), the Royal Commission into Institutional Sex Abuse (as Queen’s Counsel for the State of Queensland), the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect And Exploitation of persons with a Disability (for the State of Queensland) and the Royal Commission into Defence and Veterans suicide (for veterans, families and other clients).
In 2017 she served in the Youth Detention Review as Commissioner.

She has served on numerous Bar committees and continues as an ethics counsellor.