Kathy Murphy retired from an active career as Vice President of Community Affairs for Wells Fargo in Iowa. Her responsibilities included managing charitable giving, volunteerism, board placement and the company’s annual community support campaign. She studied at Connecticut College on the southern New England coast and earned her undergraduate degree in English at the University of Iowa.
Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 1998, she managed Percival Galleries in Des Moines for two years, and was a senior manager for Younkers chain of retail stores. Her support and governance of non-profits has included service on the board of directors of Hoyt Sherman Place Foundation, a historic cultural center in Des Moines. Currently, she serves on the United Way of Central Iowa Income Cabinet and Des Moines Water Works campaign executive committee, as well as the board of directors of Mainframe Studios (originally DesMoinesArts), a workspace for artists.