Following that, she worked as a judge at local and regional courts in Wuppertal and Düsseldorf until 1988.
She then took on the role of Head of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Division at the North Rhine-Westphalia State Representation in Bonn.
[3] Since 1971, Karin Schubert has been a member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party).
She did not make herself available for a second term in the Wowereit Senate after the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives in September 2006.
[4] Karin Schubert is a member of the board of trustees of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and has been a member of the media council of the Media Authority Berlin-Brandenburg since 2015, where she serves as its deputy chairperson.