17 Facts About Cheryl Pasteur

Cheryl Pasteur is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 11A in Baltimore County.

Cheryl Pasteur previously served on the Baltimore County Board of Education from 2018 to 2022.

Cheryl Pasteur later attended Morgan State University, where she earned a Master of Science in urban education in 1975.

Cheryl Pasteur is a former teacher at Lake Clifton Eastern High School and Old Court Middle School as well as a former principal for Old Court Middle School and Randallstown High School.

In November 2018, Cheryl Pasteur was elected to the Baltimore County School Board in Councilmanic District 2, receiving 66.1 percent of the vote in the general election.

In December 2019, Cheryl Pasteur challenged incumbent board chair Kathleen Causey in the election for chair of the Baltimore County School Board.

Cheryl Pasteur received six votes for the chair position, while Causey received five.

In December 2021, the school board selected Cheryl Pasteur to serve as its vice chair.

In February 2022, Cheryl Pasteur filed a declaration supporting a lawsuit challenging Baltimore County's new council districts for diluting the power of Black voters.

Cheryl Pasteur resigned from the school board on February 11,2022, to run for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 11A.

Cheryl Pasteur was the only candidate to run for the district.

Cheryl Pasteur was sworn into the Maryland House of Delegates on January 11,2023.

Cheryl Pasteur is a member of the House Judiciary Committee.

In 2012, the Maryland State Department of Education opened an investigation into Randallstown High School, where Cheryl Pasteur was a principal at the time of the investigation, after two anonymous sources reported cheating on state testing.

Cheryl Pasteur says in the report that she was "unaware of any testing improprieties", but two witnesses told state investigators that she was aware of the cheating.

Cheryl Pasteur announced her retirement weeks after Randallstown High School was reported for allegedly cheating on state testing, and she officially left the school weeks before the results of the investigation were released.

Cheryl Pasteur responded to the Project Baltimore report in a radio interview in June 2020, confirming some of the reported details but denying that she was connected to the alleged cheating or that she retired to "slip out" of the investigation.