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.
In addition to serving on the board of trustees for California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), she also serves on the boards of trustees of the Los Angeles County Law Library (president 2002-14 and co-founder of their Friends group); KPCC/SCPR, the public media entity (co-chair, Governance and Trustee Committee); and the Greenberg Foundation (vice president). She also sits on the board of advisors for the Hammer Museum. She has 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 spear- headed 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 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.
Steinhauser and her husband, Daniel Greenberg, have enjoyed not only collecting wooden bowls, contemporary studio glass, and photographs, but also gifting their collections to museums across the country. They are drawn to post-Mexican American photographs and pre- Colombian and Chinese jade.
