BOARD: Kathleen Weir Bertolatus

Kathleen Weir Bertolatus is Managing Counsel of Environmental and Regulatory at Phillips 66, providing strategic guidance to the company at all levels and on a wide array of business-critical issues. Kathleen is an innovative thinker who works proactively and collaboratively to solve problems.

Kathleen holds her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and her M.A. in Communication Studies with a portfolio in Dispute Resolution from The University of Texas at Austin.

Kathleen's commitment to community service has its roots in her Jesuit undergraduate education at St. Louis University, which was followed by a year of service in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as a preschool teacher in Camden, New Jersey. There, she saw first-hand the importance of early childhood education and the impacts of community support to families. Since then, Kathleen has been a pro bono attorney and a past member of the Community Advisory Committee for the Houston Office of the Tahirih Justice Center, which provides legal and social services to women and girls fleeing gender violence. Kathleen is also on the Board of Directors for Night Court, Lawyers Entertaining for Charity that stages an annual Broadway-style production to raise funds for Houston-area pro bono legal service providers.