She graduated from Wallace Rider Farrington High School in Honolulu in 1980, received a Bachelor of Science from Hawaii Loa College in 1984 and a Juris Doctor from Gonzaga University in the United States in 1990.
She returned to Micronesia to serve as a law clerk for the Supreme Court in 1990, and passed the bar examination in 1992, becoming the nation's first female Micronesian lawyer.
Carl-Worswick then worked a staff attorney for the National Public Defender's Office in Yap from 1996 to 1998 as March 1996 until December 1997.
[3][4][1] She was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Manny Mori on 15 April 2010, confirmed by the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia on 5 August and sworn in as a Justice on 21 September.
[3][4][1] In July 2017, she granted a writ of habeas corpus to Nepalese refugees who had been detained on a boat for two years, ruling that they be released with a curfew and reporting requirements.