Katherine Willoughby is the Golembiewski Professor of Public Administration at the University of Georgia with an outstanding research record on performance budgeting. She received a B.S. in psychology from Duke University (1980), an MPA from North Carolina State University (1984), and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia (1991) for which she received NASPA’s dissertation award for analyzing the decision-making orientations of state budget analysts. She held faculty rank at Georgia State University (1989-2017) before joining the University of Georgia (2017-present). She is co-editor of Public Administration Review (2024-), a NAPA fellow (2013), and past ABFM chair (2010). For each yearly Book of the States (2003-2017), she analyzed all the state-of-the-state addresses by American governors. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, her books include Policy and Politics in State Budgeting (2001), Public Budgeting in Context (2014), Sustaining the States (2014), and Public Performance Budgeting (2019) which received ABFM’s best book award (2022). She headed the money management section of the Government Performance Project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts (2003-2008).