Katherine Lemay Brown

Katherine Brown is the founder and director of The Bloomsbury Protocol Institute…a Division of Bloomsbury.   As a retired Colonel, USAF (25-year career military officer) with over 17 years of worldwide experience in the protocol/hospitality service industry. She has served as the director of protocol for four four-star general officers and as a protocol officer to two other four-star general officers. Her duties included event planning and management, strategic political-military planning; lodging; menu selection; provision of entertainment; transportation; public presentations; and, security.  She has been responsible for conducting visits by the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Queen of England, senior military officers of all Services and Foreign Nations, to include the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Senators, Congressmen, and Governors. She also has military experience in administration, personnel, budget and finance, intelligence and communications.  Highlights of her career include being a member of the Commission for Women in Combat, an aide for the Presidential Transition Team Co-chairman, a senior fellow at the Library of Congress, and Commander of the Air Force Element in the Defense Intelligence Agency.  She has civilian experience in retail, instruction, and the inn keeping industry.  Katherine Brown holds a Bachelors’ Degree in Language Arts from Arkansas State University and a Masters’ Degree in Human Resource Management from Central Michigan University. She is a graduate of the Washington School of Protocol®, and is a certified protocol/civility instructor.  Katherine has trained with Chef Victor Matthews of the Paragon Culinary School.