Professor Mackey is serving a joint appointment
at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
College of Public Health and the University of Arkansas
at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, where she
has multiple responsibilities for interinstitutional
efforts as well as teaching law.
At the UALR School of Law she was editor of the Law
Review and received the Carl Bailey award. She served as
law clerk to the Honorable G. Thomas Eisele, Judge of
the Eastern District Ark. Thereafter she served as an
Assistant US Attorney. She handled both civil and
criminal cases. Professor Mackey took a number of
courses at the Department of Justice and was invited to
teach there.
In 1983 she joined Friday, Eldredge, and Clark in Little
Rock and took Of Counsel status in January, 2004. She
taught health law as an adjunct for many years prior to
her current appointment.
She has been chosen for membership in the American Law
Institute and has served as member and chair of numerous
Arkansas Bar committees and also on Eighth Circuit Court
of Appeals committees.