She was a professor of political science at the University of Florida from 1958 to 1970, where she was the Director of the Public Administration Clearing Service.
Kammerer was a member of the leadership or advisory councils for a number of national organizations involved in policy implementation and public administration in the United States, as well as several academic societies.
[1] Kammerer was a professor of political science at Wellesley College, before joining the faculty of the University of Kentucky.
[2] In 1957 and 1958, Kammerer was involved in an academic freedom dispute, in which she was denied a pay raise for voicing public criticisms of the administration of the state of Kentucky, and in particular Governor Happy Chandler's handling of the 1952 Youth Authority Act.
She was the president of the Southern Political Science Association; served terms as the secretary, an executive committee member, and a council member of the American Political Science Association; and was on the national council of the American Society for Public Administration.