 In the 1960s and 1970s, McCarty resumed her career following the birth of her two children.In 1965 she began working as deputy attorney general for the State of Indiana and worked as an assistant attorney general from 1966 to 1969.McCarty also served from 1971 to 1976 as a member of the Indiana Board of Law Examiners, and as chief counsel to the Marion County, Indiana, prosecutor from 1975 to 1976.