Bio

Katrina Daniel joined the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) in 2015. As Chief Health Care Officer for TRS, she oversees the TRS-Care and TRS-ActiveCare health plans, which cover nearly 750,000 lives and spend nearly $4 billion on health care each year.
Previously, Ms. Daniel was Senior Associate Commissioner for the Texas Department of Insurance Life, Health and Licensing Division, spending a decade regulating $82 billion life and health insurance market in Texas, as well as licensing over 30,000 insurance agents and adjusters. She has extensive state government experience in health-related public relations, policy analysis and advising, project management, and research. She served as a legislative aide in the Texas House of Representatives and Texas Senate.

As a registered nurse, her wide-ranging background spans health care work from hospitals, universities and a law firm on the ground, to patient evacuation flights in the air. At the local government level, she was Chair of Travis County’s Central Health Board of Managers, overseeing a $300 million budget and the policymaking decisions of nine board managers, developing contract-based performance measures for health care providers, and fostering community partnerships for an integrated health care delivery system.

Ms. Daniel earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Texas Woman’s University and a Master of Science in Health Care Transformation from The University of Texas McCombs Business School and Dell Medical School. She also completed coursework for a Master of Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health.
Ms. Daniel has a passion for improving the quality of and expanding access to health care for all Texans.
She resides in Austin with her English Mastiff, Bruno.