diff --git a/api/src/main/kotlin/edu/wgu/osmt/api/model/ApiSortEnum.kt b/api/src/main/kotlin/edu/wgu/osmt/api/model/ApiSortEnum.kt
index 0a386ac10..06d360087 100644
--- a/api/src/main/kotlin/edu/wgu/osmt/api/model/ApiSortEnum.kt
+++ b/api/src/main/kotlin/edu/wgu/osmt/api/model/ApiSortEnum.kt
@@ -37,10 +37,14 @@ interface SortOrderCompanion<T> where T: SortOrder{
  */
 enum class SkillSortEnum(override val apiValue: String) : SortOrder {
     CategoryAsc("name.asc") {
-        override val sort = Sort.by("category.keyword").ascending()
+        override val sort = Sort.by(
+                Sort.Order.asc("category.sort_insensitive"),
+                Sort.Order.asc("name.sort_insensitive"))
     },
     CategoryDesc("name.desc") {
-        override val sort = Sort.by("category.keyword").descending()
+        override val sort = Sort.by(
+                Sort.Order.desc("category.sort_insensitive"),
+                Sort.Order.asc("name.sort_insensitive"))
     },
     NameAsc("skill.asc") {
         override val sort = Sort.by(nameKeyword).ascending()
diff --git a/api/src/main/kotlin/edu/wgu/osmt/richskill/RichSkillDoc.kt b/api/src/main/kotlin/edu/wgu/osmt/richskill/RichSkillDoc.kt
index 670119264..6fa2ce2ca 100644
--- a/api/src/main/kotlin/edu/wgu/osmt/richskill/RichSkillDoc.kt
+++ b/api/src/main/kotlin/edu/wgu/osmt/richskill/RichSkillDoc.kt
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ data class RichSkillDoc(
         otherFields = [
             InnerField(suffix = "", type = Search_As_You_Type),
             InnerField(suffix = "raw", analyzer = "whitespace_exact", type = Text),
-            InnerField(suffix = "keyword", type = Keyword)
+            InnerField(suffix = "keyword", type = Keyword),
+            InnerField(suffix = "sort_insensitive", type = Keyword, normalizer = "lowercase_normalizer")
         ]
     )
     @get:JsonProperty("skillName")
@@ -67,7 +68,8 @@ data class RichSkillDoc(
         otherFields = [
             InnerField(suffix = "", type = Search_As_You_Type),
             InnerField(suffix = "raw", analyzer = "whitespace_exact", type = Text),
-            InnerField(suffix = "keyword", type = Keyword)
+            InnerField(suffix = "keyword", type = Keyword),
+            InnerField(suffix = "sort_insensitive", type = Keyword, normalizer = "lowercase_normalizer")
         ]
     )
     @get:JsonProperty
diff --git a/api/src/main/resources/elasticsearch/settings.json b/api/src/main/resources/elasticsearch/settings.json
index 56c8235b1..76939bee5 100644
--- a/api/src/main/resources/elasticsearch/settings.json
+++ b/api/src/main/resources/elasticsearch/settings.json
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@
           "lowercase"
         ]
       }
+    },
+    "normalizer": {
+      "lowercase_normalizer": {
+        "type": "custom",
+        "char_filter": [],
+        "filter": ["lowercase"]
+      }
     }
   }
 }