Betsy Power grew up in the small East Texas community of Chapel Hill, near Tyler.  She obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of North Texas in 1985 and a law degree from Texas Tech University in 1988.  She practiced law for 20 years, with a 6 year hiatus in between as a District Manager for Starbucks Coffee.  In 2011 she shifted her career from law to commercial real estate at Fischer, Dallas.  In 2016 she became Director of Real Estate for Frito Lay, a division of PepsiCo, where she oversees a team managing 1,600 industrial facilities throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Betsy attends church at Northwest Bible where she serves as a Stephen Minister.  She has one son, Major, a Junior at Highland Park High School.