Staff Directory
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- Senior Associate Athletics Director for Special Projects/Special Assistant to the VP of Athletics
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Houston native Katina Jackson has served in athletics administration at the University of Houston in a variety of roles since 1998. In May 2021, Jackson was elevated to Special Assistant to the Vice President for Athletics and Senior Associate AD for Special Projects, where she oversees special projects for the athletics department, assists in annual fundraising campaigns and new major gift opportunities for the department.
Jackson previously spent the past three years as the Senior Associate AD for Development. She also serves as the administrative liaison for the Men's and Women's Golf programs.
Since 2012, she has overseen fundraising efforts for more than $240 million in capital improvements. Those projects includes the $125-million TDECU Stadium, $60-million Fertitta Center, $25-million Guy V. Lewis Development Facility, $21-million Football Indoor Practice Facility and $6-million addition to the Daryl & Lori Schroeder Park as well as the Carl Lewis International Track & Field Complex and Cougar Softball Stadium.
In June 2010, she was named associate athletics director for major gifts. She was named associate athletics director for development and annual giving in August 2003 after serving as an assistant athletics director for five years. While working in Development, she worked to ensure the advancement of annual donations through Cougar Pride, the fundraising arm of the Athletics Department.
Jackson joined Houston's athletics administration in January 1998 and has long been involved in the city's fund-raising community.
She is a member of the National Association of Athletic Development Directors (NAADD) and a past member of that organization's Executive Board.
Jackson joined the UH Athletics administrative staff after serving as a member of the Board of Directors for the Houston Athletics Foundation from 1996-98.
She led capital campaigns, annual giving drives, chaired committees for some of the community's most successful events, supervised hundreds of volunteers and worked closely with UH's athletics program on several earlier projects.
Jackson was a founding member of VICTORY, the fund-raising arm of the American Cancer Society and held leadership positions and administered events for the Texas Surgical Society, West University Little League and St. John's School.
She has been honored several times for her service activities, including the Volunteer of the Year for the Kelsey Seybold Foundation in 1997, Citizen of The Year for West University Place in 1994 and Special Achievement Award (1995) and Lady of the Knight Award (1992) from Episcopal High School.
From 2009 to 2018, she served as a member of the Board of Trustees for Star of Hope Mission, and began another three-year term in August 2019.
Jackson earned her bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Houston in 1989, graduating summa cum laude. She was a member of the National Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi.
She and her husband, Gil, have four children: Marina, Alex, who was a four-year letterman for the Cougar baseball team, Scott and George. She also has 10 grandchildren: Katina, Alexa, Andrew, Hughes, Brooks, Ford, Davis, Leighton, Marina and George.
