Kathryn Walt Hall is the owner of HALL, WALT, and BACA Wines, with her husband Craig Hall. Kathryn has been actively involved in the California wine industry since her family first purchased a vineyard in 1972.

Kathryn has served on the Board of Directors for Napa Legal Aid, Napa Emergency Women’s Services (NEWS), and Festival Napa Valley and she has been an active supporter of numerous other Napa nonprofit organizations, including Ole Health. She serves on the Napa Vintners Association Grant Review committee and on the Board of the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance, advocating viable sustainable growing practices.

Hall began her career as assistant city attorney in Berkeley, California. Later, she joined Safeway Stores, where she was responsible for developing and administering one of the nation’s first and largest affirmative action programs. In the 1990’s Hall worked as an attorney and businesswoman in Dallas, Texas, where she was president of an inner city development company and partner of HALL Group. She was appointed and served as the United States Ambassador to Austria from 1997-2001. She is a New York Times best selling author, for her book, A Perfect Score.

Long committed to social issues, Hall has served on numerous non-profit and institutional boards, addressing issues related to social care and mental health. She co-founded the North Texas Food Bank, served on the U.S. House of Representatives Hunger Advisory Committee, and was the Director/Vice President of the Texas Mental Health Association. Additionally, she has served on the National Advisory Council for Violence Against Women, as a trustee of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and Director of the National Democratic Institute.

Hall has had a distinguished career as a successful businesswoman, attorney and community activist. She is fluent in French and German, earned a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, a joint MBA from UC California, Berkeley and Columbia University and a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.