In the years 1987 and 1988, she worked for the Pirmasenser Messe GmbH, so that she could take over a job in the Office of Culture and Tourism of the city of Pirmasens from 1988 to 1993.

Glöckner was active from 1993 to 1999 in the city's public order office, driving license department.

From 1999 to 2001, she worked in the city's social services office before being exempted from 2001 to 2014 as staff council chairperson.

[5] On 12 November 2014, she replaced Sabine Bätzing Lichtenthäler in the Bundestag,[6] who took on her new job as Minister of Social Affairs of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

100 days after Glöckner had started her Bundestag mandate, in March 2015, she announced to the Pirmasenser Zeitung that in view of the great need, she considers EU refugee camps in North Africa to be necessary in order to stop trafficking gangs.