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Cathy Hirt is a resident of Fort Worth, Texas. She served on the City Council after winning a 1996 special election to complete the term of Kenneth Barr who had resigned the District 9 Council seat to run for Mayor. In 1997 she was re-elected and served a full two-year term. Her total City Council service spanned the period from May 4, 1996 to May 1, 1999.

After choosing not to run for another term, Cathy was elected President of the Fort Worth League of Neighborhood Associations and served from 2000 to 2002.

Cathy Hirt ran for Mayor of Fort Worth in 2003 losing to former State Senator Mike Moncrief.

In 2005(?) Cathy Hirt was appointed by the Fort Worth City Council as a Member of the Executive Committee for the Fort Worth Transportation Authority, the independent policy-making board for Public Transportation in Tarrant County, Texas.

In 2008 Cathy was instrumental in calling for a moratorium on natural gas drilling permits within Fort Worth.

Cathy and her husband Karl were both killed in an automobile accident In Budapest, Hungary on October 2, 2015.