Kathryn Denise Rucker Krepp[1] is an American lawyer, who formerly served as the Chief Counsel for U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) which operated under the United States Department of Transportation.

She is a former Chief Council for U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) which operated under the Department of Transportation, who has also served as a senior counsel to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security.

In 2005, Krepp joined the House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security as senior counsel under the chairmanship of Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi.

In 2015, in an editorial in a local D.C. blog, Krepp claimed her "great-great-great father" was Howell Cobb, President of the Provisional Confederate Congress.

[5] Since her departure from government service, Krepp has increasingly criticized the Obama administration's management of the maritime sector, making negative remarks about USAID's transition to international direct food aid from distribution of through the merchant marine.