Mac Schneider


Mac Schneider is an American attorney and politician who represented the 42nd district in the North Dakota Senate from 2009 until his reelection defeat in 2016. A member of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party, he served as the Senate Minority Leader from 2013 until the end of his Senate tenure. He was the Democratic-NPL endorsed candidate for the 2018 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota.

Early life, education, and career

Schneider was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota.
Schneider comes from a political family; his father Mark was the Democratic-NPL Party chairman in 2009, his mother Mary currently serves as a North Dakota State Representative from the 21st district, his uncle, John Schneider, is a former North Dakota state representative, and he campaigned for other Democratic state Senators as a child.
In 2002, he received a degree in History from the University of North Dakota. Schneider was a starting offensive lineman on UND's 2001 National Championship football team and served as team captain his senior season. He later graduated from Georgetown University with his JD in 2008. Schneider currently works as an attorney, in addition to being a part-time instructor at the University of North Dakota. His wife, Crystal Schneider, also served on the Grand Forks city council from 2014 to 2018.

North Dakota Senate

In 2008, Schneider was first elected to the North Dakota Senate from the 42nd district, which includes parts of northern Grand Forks and the University of North Dakota campus. He was reelected in 2012, and ran again in 2016, but lost to Republican Curt Kreun.

Tenure

During his time in the North Dakota Senate, Schneider made issues such as college affordability, infrastructure funding, and combatting human trafficking his main priorities. In the 2011 legislative session, he was elected to serve as Assistant Minority Leader of the North Dakota Senate, before serving as Minority Leader in the 2013 and 2015 legislative sessions.
Schneider's committee assignments during his tenure included the Standing Judiciary, Natural Resources, and Industry, Business, and Labor committees. He also served on the Interim Judiciary Committee, Budget Section Committee, Economic Impact Committee, Legislative Management Committee, and the Legislative Procedure and Arrangements Committee.

2018 United States House of Representatives Election

On March 6, 2018, Schneider announced his candidacy for that year's U.S. House of Representatives election for North Dakota's at-large congressional district. Schneider won the endorsement of the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party at their 2018 state convention on March 17, 2018, edging out former State Representative Ben W. Hanson and State Senator John Grabinger.
Schneider has said that his main goals as a U.S. Congressman would include job creation, working across the aisle to decrease what he describes as the hyper-partisan nature of Congress, helping to improve the Affordable Care Act, and ensuring that North Dakota's agricultural sector is not harmed by the Trump administration's foreign trade policies.

Electoral History