Karen Rae Shepherd (née Felker; born July 5, 1940) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995.

Vincent owned and operated a wholesale oil distributing company and Karen taught Freshman English at Brigham Young University.

Karen Shepherd's 1992 campaign platform led with a balanced budget, and support for government involvement in health care reform, education, abortion, and the environment.

She put forward a 10-point plan for improving children's lives that included tracking down delinquent fathers and fully funding Head Start.

[4] In the general election she ran against Enid Greene who had been an aide to Utah Governor Norman Bangerter and was a fiscal and social conservative who opposed all of her positions.

[9] Immediately upon leaving Congress Karen Shepherd was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

While she was there, she chaired the East West Trade and Investment Forum of the American Chamber of Commerce and became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Returning to the United States in 2002, she worked as a regional advisor for Emily's List, served on three corporate boards as well as on the national Planned Parenthood Action Council, and in Utah, served on the boards of Wasatch Homeless Health Care Inc. and the University of Utah's Humanities Partnership and the David Eccles School of Business.