Katherine Bishop was born and raised in Santa Clara County. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where she majored in Political Science with an Emphasis in International Relations. During her undergraduate studies she also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She attended Santa Clara University School of Law where her main focus was intellectual property law and family law. During law school she also studied and worked in Munich, Germany. Since graduation she has exclusively practiced family law and has appeared in several Bay Area Counties.