Marian K. Schneider is a senior voting rights advisor to Committee of Seventy. Marian
is an experienced voting rights advocate, lawyer and litigator who has worked in the
democracy space for more than 20 years in a variety of roles. She currently teaches
Voting Rights and Election Administration as an adjunct faculty member at the Charles
Widger Law School at Villanova University.
Marian previously served as Senior Policy Counsel for Voting Rights at the ACLU of
Pennsylvania from 2021-2025 and the CEO of Verified Voting, a national nonprofit that
promotes the secure and responsible use of technology in elections.
From 2015 to 2017, Marian was the Deputy Secretary for Elections and Administration
at the Pennsylvania Department of State where she advanced numerous pro-voter
reforms including implementing Pennsylvania’s online voter registration application. She
also served as a Special Advisor on Election Policy to Governor Tom Wolf during which
she authored a blueprint recommending concrete steps for securing Pennsylvania’s
election infrastructure.
Marian has litigated numerous high-impact voting rights cases in Pennsylvania under
federal and state law, including serving as co-counsel in the most significant voting
cases from 2020 to 2024. She has served on the National Task Force on Election
Crises, the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Pennsylvania’s Election Security at the
University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security, and chaired the
Judicial Nominations Working Group of the American Constitution Society Philadelphia
Lawyers Chapter.
Marian serves on the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters of
Pennsylvania and is a board member of the League of Women Voters of Chester
County.
Marian earned her J.D. at the George Washington University where she was a member
of the Law Review. She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a
degree in Classical Studies/Latin. Outside of work, Marian enjoys running, biking and
swimming and other fun activities in the great outdoors. She is an avid word puzzle
enthusiast and is learning to speak Italian. She and her husband are the parents of
three adult sons and live in Chester County.