Councilmember Mary Snider
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Town Hall 11000 N. La Cañada Dr. Phone: (520) 229-4997 Family: Husband, Greg and two sons, Barrett and Josh Education: Portland State University, Portland, OR - 1970 Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR - 1968-1970 |
Biography:
A native of Portland, Oregon, Snider has been a resident in Oro Valley since 1999. She attended college in Oregon before going to work for Kaiser Permanente. Her healthcare career in marketing and medical management consulting spans nearly 30-years and three states. She retired from her private medical practice consulting business in 1999 when her family relocated to Oro Valley, where she turned her focus to community advocacy. In 2003, she founded Project Graduation at Ironwood Ridge High School and collaborated with volunteers from Canyon del Oro High School. Project Graduation is an annual community-sponsored event providing a safe and sober graduation event for over 800 local high school seniors. In that capacity, she managed over 500 volunteers with an annual budget of $50,000. Snider led Project Graduation at Ironwood Ridge High School until 2008, and it has become a model for high schools in southern Arizona.
Snider’s husband, Greg, is a retired FBI agent, having recently returned from an 18-month tour in Iraq as a law enforcement advisor to the U.S. Army and Iraqi government. In July 2010, they celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. She has two sons, Barrett, 31, and Josh, 22. Barrett is an advocate for public schools in Sacramento, CA. Josh, a 2006 graduate of Ironwood Ridge High School and a 2010 graduate of University of Arizona, is a software development engineer for Microsoft in Redmond, WA.
Snider currently serves as a board member of the Arizona Automobile Theft Authority Board; Vice-President of the Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation; and Oro Valley Community Foundation. She is also the inaugural recipient of the Northern Pima County Chamber of Commerce Legacy Award, and received the 2006 Citizen of the Year award from the Oro Valley Police Department.