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Katherine D. Jordan is Of Counsel to the firm. Over the last fifteen years, Kate's practice has focused on complex civil litigation and appeals, with an emphasis on drafting and arguing motions for summary judgment, preserving appellate error during trial, drafting jury charges and post-trial motions, and preparing briefs for parties and amicus organizations on appeal.

Kate earned her bachelor's degree, cum laude, in political science from Emory University in 1989. She obtained her law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1992, where she graduated in the top 15 percent of her class. While in law school, Kate was the Executive Research Editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and was a member of the school's Moot Court Board.

Since law school, Kate has served as law clerk to two federal judges, including the Honorable Ewing Werlein, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and Chief Magistrate Judge Gerrilyn G. Brill of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Kate also spent seven years as a litigation associate with the law firm Vinson & Elkins, working out of the firm's Houston and Austin, Texas offices. While at Vinson & Elkins, Kate represented clients in large-scale commercial lawsuits and appeals, including contract disputes, class action securities cases, international arbitrations, fraud and professional liability suits, and insurance coverage litigation.

In 2001, Kate moved to the Atlanta, Georgia area, where she worked as an Associate with the law firm Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy. More recently, Kate served as General Counsel to the Southeastern Legal Foundation, a public interest constitutional law firm based in Atlanta. In this capacity, Kate directed all litigation for the Foundation, and filed appellate and amicus curiae briefs with the Fifth, Eleventh, and Ninth United States Circuit Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Kate's articles regarding developments in various substantive areas of the law have been published in legal periodicals throughout the country.

Kate is admitted to practice in both Texas and Georgia. She is married to Jonathan Jordan, a bankruptcy litigation attorney with the Atlanta office of the law firm King & Spalding. The couple have three children.