ABOUT | Ryan O'Neil for Marin County Supervisor

Ryan is a native of Corte Madera. A product of Marin County public schools. A Californian whose identity and commitment to the common good were molded in Marin’s natural spaces and unique expressions of community. Other than four years at San Diego State University, he has lived his life in Marin and dedicated his career to its residents through public service and business.

As an Eagle Scout, Ryan honed an early instinct for leadership and love of public service working on staff in Marin Council’s Scout camps. In business, he developed a commitment to job creation and dignified employment. Through real estate, he has gained an incisive and empathic view of the challenges of affordable housing in Marin.

Ryan prides himself on being a good listener, asking informed questions, and making decisions that promote the greater good of our communities. He strives for consensus and has a well-earned reputation for getting things done. He served the 2nd District as a town councilmember in Fairfax and is a two-term trustee of the Ross Valley School District.

Ryan lives by a code of authenticity and acts on his convictions. As a founder of Stand with Ross Valley Schools, he worked vigorously to promote public education. He is also a founding member of the Fairfax Open Space Committee, a public body founded in 2003 to protect the undeveloped natural lands in and abutting the town. And through his work on the Town of Fairfax Tree Committee, he brought his strong sense of environmental stewardship to practical town planning issues such as topsoil erosion, landslide mitigation, town aesthetics, and carbon reduction.

Ryan and his wife Christine met on a blind date in 1992 during college, only to discover they grew up just a few miles apart. He went to Redwood High School, she to Drake (now Archie Williams). They married in 2003. Their two daughters now walk in their mother’s footsteps. Charley, a senior, is All Student Body President at AW. Caelan is a freshman there, as well as a passionate ballet student at the Stapleton School of Performing Arts. Perched in the hills above Fairfax, their family home is the domain of two boisterous Rhodesian Ridgebacks named Bodhi and Hendrix, two large Savannah cats, and a mountain lion who made her den in the woods beyond their terrace.

From his youth, Ryan has laid down more than a half century of footprints through the Mt. Tam Watershed and hills of West Marin. He knows every dugout, base path and outfield in the county and plenty more across the state. He played for Redwood, then in the Mexico League during college, then 12 years with the semi-pro Novato Knicks. Always in Center Field. He has coached for West Marin Little League, Branson High School, and the San Anselmo Baseball Association.

You can still find him in the fields of his boyhood dreams, shagging fly balls on warm summer evenings in the Corte Madera Recreational Softball League.