Madison McKinley Isner - Jewelry Designer, Career and Family

Madison McKinley Isner began her professional career as an Accessories Designer at KOCH in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in April 2009. Around the same time, she founded MadKool LLC and began working as a designer. She served as a gallery intern at the Fashion Industry Gallery in Dallas for two months in 2010 and helped in setting up for markets and assisting in galleries. For ten months from August 2013, she worked as a Sales and Marketing Intern at Jaya Apparel Group, LLC in New York City.

After completing her graduation from the University of Texas in 2014, she made a living arrangement at her family’s ranch in Buffalo for nine months. During this period she did all the work of a fulltime cowgirl and rode on horseback for 10-plus hours each day to round up the cattle. Alongside her cowgirl life, she continued to design jewelry in her spare time and began hand-forging her designs in the ranch’s workshop. She worked with her mother Karla McKinley who, according to her, has a great eye for detail. The duo later went on to establish the jewelry company Madison McKinley in Dallas, Texas in January 2016.

Madison McKinley Isner was born on November 15, 1992 in Dallas, Texas, to Mark and Karla McKinley. Her mother is a former model and an art collector who is a breast-cancer survivor. Madison is one of three children of her parents and has two brothers named Charlie and Key McKinley. She is very close to both her grandmothers, Helen McKinley and Diana D’Elia. Since she can remember, she has been visiting the Steerhead Ranch, which her grandparents had bought in the 1980s, every year in the summer. Passionate about fashion, she originally went to New York’s Parsons School of Design to study Fashion and Apparel Design in 2011, but transferred to the University of Texas at Austin three years later and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts in 2014. She can speak Spanish proficiently.

Madison McKinley Isner has been in a longtime relationship with John Isner, The couple reportedly met for the first time at a pub in 2011, and she was immediately smitten by him. They began dating soon after, and finally got engaged on June 25, 2017, which both of them shared with the public on Instagram. The couple tied the knot six months later on December 4, 2017, in a country-themed wedding in Montage Palmetto Bluff, South Carolina. The wedding was attended by several former and current tennis players and sports reporters including Steve Johnson and his then-fiancée Kendall Bateman, Sam Querrey and his then-girlfriend Abby Dixon, Justin Gimelstob and his wife Cary Sinnott, James Blake and his wife Emily Snider, Alex Kuznetsov and Tim Smyczek.

After marriage, she had to work from the road as she accompanied her husband to almost every tournament he played in. Incidentally, John's career took a positive turn following their marriage as he won the biggest title of his career, his first ATP World Masters 1000 title, at the Miami Open in April 2018. Later that month, Madison revealed on Instagram that they were expecting a baby girl. Nevertheless, she continued to support her husband from the stands during the Wimbledon in July 2018, during which he secured his career-best ranking of No.8. In September, he sat out of the Davis Cup tournament to witness the birth of their daughter, Hunter Grace Isner, whose picture was shared with the public by both the parents via Instagram on September 19th. They are currently settled in their new Highland Park home.