Kate Holbrook

After suffering from eye cancer, Holbrook died at age 50 on August 20, 2022, in Salt Lake City.

In 2017, At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-Day Saint Women, which was co-edited by Reeder, was published to document public prayers and preaching of 54 women—including biographical information and the context of the material.

When she was hired by the CHD in 2011, Holbrook became the first historian hired to specialize in women's history. Historians Jennifer Reeder and Brittany Chapman Nash were later hired to join the research team. During her time in the CHD, the LDS Church has seen the role of women expand and evolve. This includes prayers offered by women in the church's general conferences, leadership assignments on executive councils, and writings about Heavenly Mother. Holbrook was a collaborator on The First Fifty Years of Relief Society, a collection of original documents that explores nineteenth-century history of the Relief Society—the women's organization of the LDS Church. Along with Matthew Bowman, she also edited Women and Mormonism, a collection of primary documents and oral histories exploring perspectives of Latter-day Saint women.

Kate Holbrook (January 13, 1972 – August 20, 2022) was an American historian and writer. She worked as the managing historian of women's history in the Church History Department (CHD) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

Holbrook was born in Santa Barbara, California, on January 13, 1972, to Kathleen Stewart and Robert Holbrook. Her father left the family six weeks after she was born, and she was raised by her mother and grandmother, Belle Fillmore Stewart. Her mother later moved to Utah and Holbrook attended schools in Provo. After a stint as an LDS missionary in Samara, Russia, she studied at Brigham Young University. Holbrook then obtained a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, before being awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in religious studies from Boston University.