a referee in girls high school games. While working and promoting girl's high school games, she managed to become the president of Virginia State Association of Health and Physical Education, a position she used to oversee other milestones implemented. For instance, it is during her leadership as the president that Title IX legislation came into existence and ensured that Virginia Stated adhered to equal funding of women's teams. References Anonymous “Katherine Bennett's Biography.” The HistoryMakers 2004 www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/katherine-bennett-40. (Accessed February 17, 2021) The HistoryMakers® Video Oral History Interview with Katherine Bennett, October 13, 2004. The HistoryMakers® African American Video Oral History Collection, 1900 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. https://www.thehistorymakers.org/sites/default/files/A2004_200_EAD.pdf External links Robinson, Tom "A league of their own," The Virginian-Pilot, February 22, 1993, Sports section, page C1. (Pay to view archived article). 2009 deaths American female middle-distance runners Virginia State University people People from Elizabeth City, North Carolina 1922 births 20th-century American women 20th-century American people 21st-century American women