Vale Kathleen 'Kate' Muir

19 January 1948 - 7 October 2020

20th October 2020

Highlights

• Kate Muir was a true legend with a big heart – a straight shooter and phenomenal human being.  She worked in the Public Service, the private sector and she was a lecturer at the University of Canberra.  
• She was passionate about ICT and supported many women entering the ICT field

Kate Muir was a true legend with a big heart – a straight shooter and phenomenal human being.  She worked in the Public Service, the private sector and she was a lecturer at the University of Canberra.  She was passionate about ICT and supported many women entering the ICT field.

Kate Muir was the Chair of the not-for-profit Women in Information and Communications (WIC) Board for 3 years (2013-2016).  In that position she would speak at conferences, including the ACT ACS Conference, about the need to encourage women into the field of ICT, staff the desk at university open days to encourage girl students to undertake study in the field of ICT, and provided networking functions for women in the Canberra Region who work in the ICT field.   

In September 2014 she was awarded the ACS Leoni Warne Medal.  She was very honoured to be awarded the Leoni Warne Medal by the ACS. This medal recognised her ongoing support of women in the ICT industry. The medal is not awarded every year, so was a huge surprise to Kate to be told that she should be at the annual conference dinner to accept the award.