Betsy grew up in Darnestown, Maryland with most summers in Hamilton, Montana. Her family’s roots are in the Bitterroot. She graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., spent three years working for Senator Max Baucus in D.C., then attended law school at the University of Montana. Following a Montana Supreme Court clerkship, she worked in the Montana Attorney General’s Office, shifted to the Risk Management and Tort Division, and from there became the first General and Ethics Counsel at the State Bar of Montana, where she enjoyed 26 years of working with the state’s lawyers and judges.
