Team

Katrina Montgomery brings over 30 years of accounting and finance expertise, over two decades of strategic leadership experience and a proven track record as a transformational, people-focused financial leader to Austin ISD. Montgomery excels at cultivating tight-knit, high-performing teams and creating opportunities in underserved communities for students to achieve success.
Montgomery received her B.S. in Accounting from Grambling State University and her MBA from University of Phoenix. She has served Austin ISD for three years as Assistant Superintendent of Finance. Before serving at Austin ISD, she was interim VP of Administration and Finance and Controller at Huston-Tillotson University.

Montgomery is the Vice-President of the Capital Area Texas Association of School Business Officials. She is a board member with the Greater Austin Black Chamber of Commerce.  She was also appointed as the Austin Chapter’s Issuer Ambassador for the 27th Annual Women in Public Finance Conference.

Outside of work, Mrs. Montgomery is fiercely committed to her family. She and her husband Michael have two children.

Melissa has over 20 years of planning experience, having worked for city municipalities and a K-12 school district of over 75,000 students. She currently serves as Executive Director of Bond Implementation and Communications for the Austin Independent School District where she manages a team that works with school communities as part of the 2022 Bond Program to design campuses that reflect each unique community. Additionally, she works closely with other district departments on the implementation of the district's Long-range Plan, which includes over 450 strategies. Most recently, she led the multi-departmental long-range planning process which took a comprehensive look at the educational experience, guided by an Equity by Design model. The process centered the experiences of the most historically underserved communities to create the conditions for all students to thrive in the school system and was the basis for the district’s $2.44B bond program that was overwhelmingly supported by the voters in November 2022.