She served as president of the National Association of Teachers of Speech, and was a trustee for the Utah State School for Deaf and Blind for 20 years. In 1907, she was elected to be president of the Board of Trustees for the school. Along with all of her work in physical education and theater, Babcock was the first woman to serve as chaplain in the Utah senate. Becoming the first woman chaplain in any state senate in the United States.