Joseph Steinfels and his wife | Facebook /Joseph Steinfels
Joseph Steinfels and his wife | Facebook /Joseph Steinfels
Joseph Steinfels is running for the open 5th Ward alderman seat on the Park Ridge City Council.
He is a former Marine who served 25 years and deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Upon my return home to Park Ridge, I have committed to serve my local community as a Coach with Park District Youth Basketball, as a V-Show producer at Roosevelt, as a Cub Scout Pack Committee Chair, as a member of various volunteer organizations (Park Ridge Kiwanis), on the Wilderness Scout/Princess Federation Nation staff, as a team coach for Girls-on-the-Run, as a Library Board Trustee, and as the creator/organizer of Go Green Park Ridge’s semi-annual 'Every day is Earth Day!' Forest & Woodland Clean-Up event, an event which has drawn hundreds of Park Ridge volunteers to get outside and help clean up our community,” Steinfels notes on his campaign website.
He has tutored lower-income students and briefed senators on Capitol Hill. Steinfels also "taught undergraduate students at Duke University and infantry platoon commanders at Quantico." He had "rebuilt homes destroyed by tornadoes with Habitat for Humanity as well as constructed brand new shower units in Miwani (Kenya) for orphans who lost their parents to the HIV epidemic."
“Within our greater community, I am a Board Member of the Chicago Youth Centers, a non-profit organization expanding opportunities for inner-city youth," Steinfels added. "Upon retiring from the Marine Corps, I now serve as a Public Defender helping our nation deliver the promise of justice to the most vulnerable among us.”
Steinfels is on the Park Ridge Library Board. He chairs the Building and Grounds Committee. He faces Alice Dobrinsky in the April 4 election.
The two are looking to succeed retiring Ald. Charlie Melidosian.
Steinfels is one of 12 children. He grew up near Mary, Seat of Wisdom in Park Ridge. He is a public defender in Cook County and volunteers for several charitable efforts. He, his wife, and four children lived in Des Plaines before returning to Park Ridge four years ago.
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