The Reverend Katherine Tuttle is the Director of Parish Life and Membership and is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.  What she loves most about ministry is creating spaces for relationship building, meaning making, storytelling, and ritual rooted in our shared call to love and serve our neighbor.  

In addition to parish life, Katherine also has prior experience as a Resident Minister at Georgetown University and Loyola Marymount University.  At both schools, she lived in student housing with her family to foster a sense of community and belonging among the residents. She hopes that her experience with college students, as well as her work as a hospital chaplain, will help people of diverse backgrounds find a home at Palmer. 

Katherine lives with her husband Jake, a professor of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas, and their two small children. In her free time, Katherine loves baking bread, walking, reading, spending time with her family, and playing the ukulele very poorly.  She enjoys exploring Houston and is always eager to meet Palmers in their favorite spots around this vibrant city.