Pauline Schneider

Pauline Schneider

Pauline Schneider

Portrait of Pauline SchneiderPauline A. Schneider joined the Rowan University Foundation Board of Directors in 2009.

Ms. Schneider, a New Jersey native and Rowan alumni, has spent her adult life in Washington, D.C. where she worked in the not for profit world, government  and law before retiring in 2016 from the Washington, D.C. office of Ballard Spahr LLP where she worked as a bond lawyer. Prior to joining Ballard, she was a partner and head of the Public Finance Group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, in Washington, D.C.  Ms. Schneider began  private practice in1985 at Hunton & Williams, LLP in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she spent four years in the Carter White House in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs/Secretary to the Cabinet, and four years in District of Columbia government where she was the Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Relations in the Office of the Mayor.

Ms. Schneider has received numerous awards for her contributions to the legal profession, including the 1999 Margaret Brent Women of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association Commission on Women.

She was the first African American woman president of the District of Columbia Bar  (1994-95). In addition, she has served on the Boards of Directors for many for profit and not for profit local and national companies and professional organizations, as well as several education
and community groups.

Her mother, Pauline Boykin, started her Rowan education in the 1930s when it was a normal school. She later returned to get her bachelor¹s degree in 1963, then earned her master¹s in Art Education in 1967 and went on to become an assistant professor in the University¹s Department of Art. Upon retiring in 1978, Ms. Boykin received the rank of Professor Emeritus. She graduated from Rowan in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in secondary education. She also has a master's degree in urban studies from Howard University (1972) and a J.D. from Yale University Law School (1977). She was recognized as the Rowan University Distinguished Alumnus in 2001.

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