Katharine Banham was appointed to the North Carolina Board of Public Welfare four years after becoming a professor at Duke University.
In 1946, Banham was appointed as an associate professor in the Duke University psychology department, where she became associate professor of psychology, emerita in 1967. In 1950, Banham was appointed as the Senior Psychologist at the North Carolina Board of Public Welfare, now the North Carolina Division of Social Services. 
