BettyeLynn Smith is Executive Director of Community Impact of Chattanooga, Inc. (Community Impact), a comprehensive community-building initiative whose mission is to create an improving quality of life in participating neighborhoods through support of neighborhood associations and partnerships with other key organizations. Before joining Community Impact, she served as Senior Vice President of Neighborhood Revitalization and Community Relations for Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, Inc. During her professional career, BettyeLynn has held several senior positions in the non-profit, profit and government sectors. Prior to returning to Chattanooga, she served as Executive Vice President of the National Association of Investment Companies. She also spent several years in the securities industry as: Senior Vice President of Client Services for Wedgewood Capital Management, Inc.; Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and a member of the management committee for Pryor, McClendon, Counts & Co., Inc.; and on the business development team of WR Lazard & Co., Inc.

BettyeLynn is a member of the Investment Committee for the Chattanooga Opportunity Fund; the Knowledge Initiative Advisory Committee of the Fannie Mae Foundation; the Board of Directors/Executive Committee of the Urban League of Greater Chattanooga; the Council of Advisors for the United Way of Greater Chattanooga; the Board of Directors/Executive Committee of Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise and the Board of Directors of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library. She is a graduate of Leadership Chattanooga 2003. Smith holds a Master of Science degree from Biscayne College (now St. Thomas University) and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.