Katherine Hobbs is the Ottawa city councillor of Kitchissippi Ward. She won the ward in the Ottawa municipal election, 2010, defeating the incumbent Christine Leadman.
Hobbs lives in the Westboro neighbourhood of the city, and was raised in Ottawa. Hobbs graduated from the University of Ottawa in Business Administration and received a certification in Internet Marketing from the University of British Columbia. Prior to being elected, she worked for Novotech Technologies from 2003. She has also worked for Bell Canada, Nortel, Astra Telecom and for Scotiabank.
Hobbs was elected upon anger over the development of a former convent into new building units. While Hobbs was not an anti-development candidate, outrage over development in the ward was key to Leadman losing the election.[1]