Delegate Betsy B. Carr serves portions of the City of Richmond in the Virginia House of Delegates. Betsy represented the fifth district of the City of Richmond on the Richmond School Board from 2006-2010. Betsy Carr was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2009. In the House of Delegates, she serves on the Appropriations, Transportation, General Laws, and Rules Committees. She also serves on the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the Commission on Employee Retirement Security and Pension Reform, the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission, the Virginia Housing Commission, the Task Force to Commemorate the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote. She is Treasurer of the House Democratic Caucus.
Previously, Betsy has worked as Outreach Director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, supervisor of statewide programs at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, community relations and resource development chairperson at the University of Richmond’s Women’s Resource Center, and as a Development Associate at the Virginia Historical Society. While active in the Junior League she chaired the training committee.
Betsy is an honors graduate of Hollins College (now Hollins University). She is the first Hollins graduate to be elected to serve in the Virginia General Assembly. She has three grown sons and six grandchildren.