Susan Steinhauser has a distinguished record of public service. She practiced law in Sacramento with the State Legislative Counsel Bureau, specializing in education and local government, and in Los Angeles with Southern California Edison Company, specializing in renewable resources.
— She serves on the following Boards of Trustees: Los Angeles County Law Library (President 2002-2014 and co-founder of their Friends group); SCPR/LAist, the public media entity; the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts); and the Greenberg Foundation (President). She also sits on the Board of Advisors for the Hammer Museum.
— She served as President of the Los Angeles City Fire and Police Pension Board, Vice President of the California Arts Council (Chair, Strategic Planning Committee), and on the Board of the Library of California (Chair, Legislative Committee).
She is a longtime member of the Junior League of Los Angeles, having spearheaded their public policy making and women’s leadership initiatives, and of the Women Lawyers of Los Angeles Foundation Board (Chair, Charitable Fund/Annual Giving).
She has worked tirelessly to move women into places of leadership, most notably in her role as founding co-chair of the award-winning Los Angeles Women’s Appointment Collaboration. The Collaboration is a diverse coalition — professionally, geographically, politically, racially and ethnically — devoted to increasing the number of women on the City’s, the County’s and the State’s boards and commissions. She is a long time member of the Women’s Political Committee (WPC).
She is a strong supporter of the arts and arts education. She was the first Council Member to chair the Getty Museum Photographs Council. She also served on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Program Committee and the California State Superintendent’s Task Force on Arts Education. Outside California, she has served on the Santa Fe University of Art and Design Board of Directors, the Santa Fe Community College Foundation Board, and the Pilchuck Glass School Board, where she also served as vice president.
