Catherine R. Ast

Catherine R. Ast

District Services Manager, West Palm Beach DDA (West Palm Beach, FL)

After serving for 15 years as operations director of a long-term care pharmacy, Catherine joined the DDA team.  As a 4th generation “Local”, she has experienced the changes in our City, especially the Downtown area, and is enthusiastic about serving our community. As the DDA’s District Services Manager, Catherine is responsible for facilitating, promoting and ensuring community enrichment for Downtown residents and managing DDA contracts that include landscaping, maintenance, security, trolley, clean team, pressure washing and more.  She is CPTED certified with the State of Florida, a graduate of IDA ELF 2019 and serves on the City’s Golf Course Advisory Board.

In her spare time she loves to get in a round of golf and can’t pass us a chance to share her love of animals.