In 2020, she published her first children's book Unicameral and You: Collaborating for the Common Good in Nebraska's Capitol.

She was a television reporter for KCAU in Sioux City in 2003 and KOLN in Lincoln from 2004 to 2005.

She then became communications director for the Nebraska Democratic Party until she decided to run for office.

Senator McGill was elected to the Legislature in 2006 serving Nebraska's 26th legislative district and served as the Chair of the Urban Affairs Committee from the fall of 2009 until she was term limited out of office.

[1] She successfully ran for the Millard Public Schools Board of Education in 2016 and won re-election in 2020.