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In her mid-20s, Kylie Schmidt asked herself hard questions: Who am I? What am I all about? What kind of person am I?
Her reflective search for the answers to those probing questions led her along a winding path during college, where she considered becoming a neuroscientist, a chemist, a nurse, or a journalist, before discovering her calling as a plaintiff’s attorney.
“I think I had a lot of growing up to do and figuring out who I was before I was able to establish my values and my principles, who I am, and what I want to do with my life, and how I’m going to align my career with those values,” says Schmidt of her time at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth.
Though born in Texas, Schmidt spent the majority of her childhood in the Denver metropolitan area where she came to love the outdoors and to engage her passion for horseback riding. Throughout her teen-age years, she competed locally and regionally in “reining,” a western-style of riding where a rider guides the horse through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops. It was partly with the intent of joining the Division 1 school’s equestrian team as a walk-on that Schmidt chose to attend TCU.
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