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.
[1] In addition to her research, Kammerer was involved in running many of the major professional organizations in political science.
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.