Richard D. Schneider, M.D.
Mayor / CRA Chair

Mayor Schneider was elected to the City Council in March, 2007. He was elected by his fellow Councilmembers to serve as Mayor /Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Chair for a one-year term starting in December, 2009.  Prior to that, he served as Mayor Pro Tem/CRA Vice Chair.

Mayor Schneider currently serves as the City Council liaison to the City’s Senior Citizen’s Commission.  He is also the Council representative to the Tournament of Roses Committee.  He serves with Councilmember Cacciotti as a member of the Design Advisory Group, a committee overseeing interim traffic improvements in lieu of the 710 surface freeway.  He also served on the City’s Transportation Commission from 1996-2004.  He also chaired the City’s Ad Hoc Bicycle Committee.

He represents the City on the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments and serves on its Transportation Committee. He serves on the Los Angeles County City Selection Committee.  In addition, he serves as the City’s delegate on the Los Angeles County Sanitation Board, District 16, and the Arroyo Verdugo Subregion Steering Committee.

Mayor Schneider is a member of numerous community groups, including South Pasadena Beautiful, the Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library, the South Pasadena Preservation Foundation, the California Native Plant Society, the Pasadena Audubon Society,  Friends of the River, LA, the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, the California Bicycle Coalition, the Wilderness Society, and the California Mountaineering Club.

A graduate of Yale University and Case Western Reserve University, where he obtained his medical degree, Dr. Schneider is a diplomate of the American Board of Pathology, and he has been a partner of the Clinical Laboratory Medical Group since 1979.  He is a member of the College of American Pathologists.

Mayor Schneider and his wife Pauline have four children—Nicole Schneider, Tamara Schneider Bhandari, Garrett Schneider, and Brandon Schneider.