Hunter, Cathy 

Head of School

cathy hunter

The daughter of a British Quaker physician and a Danish musician, Cathy was born in London and raised in upstate New York.  She received her B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and began her teaching career at Phillips Academy. Cathy served as teacher, dean, and division head in four independent schools across the country before coming to San Francisco Friends School. She received her M.Ed. from Loyola College in Baltimore. In the winter of 2008, Cathy spent two weeks in New York as a Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia University, studying the spiritual development of children. That summer, she toured New England, tracing the spiritual footsteps of George Fox, founder of the Religious Society of Friends. Cathy and her partner, Scott, have two grown sons, Benjamin and Matthew.