Karen Mackey

Karen Mackey was born in Sioux City in 1956. She attended Longfellow and Whittier Elementary Schools, Hayworth Junior High and high school at “Old East High” and graduated from East High. She graduated with a B.S. in sociology from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa in 1990. In 1994 she was awarded a J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law. In 1994 she graduated from the University of Nebraska Law School. Karen is an enrolled member of the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska. She is a member of the bar in Iowa and Nebraska. Upon her graduation from law school, Karen worked as a public defender for the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and later for the Fortune 500 computer manufacturer Gateway, Inc. She is currently employed as the Executive Director of the Sioux City Human Rights Commission, a position she has held since 2004.

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