- Appeared with her husband Chris Matthews on his show, Hardball with Chris Matthews (1997) on October 1, 2013, "turning the tables," as she has in previous years during the Christmas-New Years period, allowing her to interview him, not as in the past about the previous year in politics, but this time for her to interview him about his new book, "Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked," and comparing relations between the President (Reagan) and the Speaker (Tip O'Neill) in his book, to the present situation and government shut down between Barack Obama and John Boehner. As he has many times, Matthews managed to refer to his wife as "The Queen" in the last sentence before the end of the segment.
- While still employed as news anchor with WJLA-TV in 2004, she was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
- Graduated in 1975 from Stanford University.
- Holder of honorary doctorates from the University of South Carolina and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.
- She has served on the boards of directors of the U.S. Travel Association; Catholic Charities; the Black Student Fund; Suited for Change; Historic Ford's Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC; the Nantucket Film Festival; and Nantucket Dreamland Theater.
- Began working at ABC's Washington DC affiliate WJLA in 1976 as a production assistant, working her way up to producer, writer/reporter, and then anchor for 25 years through her 2006 retirement from local news broadcasting. She also hosted and executive produced the nationally syndicated "Working Woman" television show during the last five years of her tenure at WJLA, and hosted a Sunday political program "Capital Sunday," also on WJLA.
- (2006-May 2015) Executive vice president of communications for Marriott International.
- Kathleen and her husband, Chris Matthews, live in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (2007)
- Revisited sub-Saharan Africa over the New Year's 2013-4 period with her husband Chris Matthews, her son Thomas Matthews, and her daughter Caroline Matthews. Chris discussed and showed various pictures from the trip on various broadcasts of Hardball with Chris Matthews (1997) in January and February 2014.
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