Kate Spencer

Kate Spencer is the district attorney of Starling City. She was to be the prosecutor had Oliver Queen's case gone to trial, and appointed Laurel Lance the lead council on Moira Queen's trial following Adam Donner's kidnapping by Count Vertigo.

Biography
In "Damaged", when Oliver Queen was charged with acting as the vigilante, Arrow, Kate was brought on as the prosecution. She admitted that she believed Oliver to be the vigilante, though she believed it was related to post-traumatic stress disorder and offered him the insanity plea. Oliver rejected the deal instead for a polygraph, though were he to fail he would accept the plea.

In "State v. Queen",after Adam Donner, who was the lead council on Moira Queen's trial, was kidnapped by Count Vertigo, Kate appointed Laurel Lance as his replacement, deciding that the jury knew her best.

Trivia

 * She is based on DC Comic's Kate Spencer, who is also known as the vigilante Manhunter.