For 15 years, Reed-Francois was an associate and deputy athletic director primarily on the sport administration and external relations areas from 2002 to 2003 at Santa Clara, then Fresno State from 2003 to 2006, San Francisco from 2007 to 2008, Tennessee from 2008 to 2012, Cincinnati from 2013 to 2014, and Virginia Tech from 2014 to 2017.
At Tennessee, Reed-Francois was the direct supervisor for the men's basketball team; she had the same duties for Virginia Tech Hokies football.
[4] While attending law school, Reed-Francois worked for the Oakland Raiders in 1995, as a legal associate handling collective bargaining issues related to the team's relocation from Los Angeles.
[7] On October 1, 2007, the University of San Francisco hired Reed-Francois as associate athletics director for internal operations and senior women's administrator.
[12][13][3] She received a contract through 2022 with an annual salary of $350,000, which also included oversight of both Thomas & Mack Center and Sam Boyd Stadium.
[11][1] Reed-Francois organized a joint use agreement for UNLV Rebels football to share Allegiant Stadium with the future Las Vegas Raiders.
[18] In 2019, Reed-Francois fired Marvin Menzies and hired T. J. Otzelberger as UNLV Runnin' Rebels men's basketball coach.
[20] By December 2020, UNLV raised $1 million for the Momentum Fund, a project meant to offset financial losses due to COVID-19 restricting ticket sales.
[22] By this year, UNLV had raised over $60 million in donations and increased its donor base by 70 percent since Reed-Francois became athletics director.