Edyth Maud Hull was born on September 9, 1919, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Maud Mabel (née Kelly) and Edwin John Hull, a chemical engineer.
[1][2][5] In 1964, Schoenrich while working at the Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, she started teaching at the Bloomberg School of Public Health as an associate professor.
[5] In the same year, she was appointed Director of the Administration of the Chronically Ill and Aging, part of Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
[2][5] She was promoted to professor in 1974 and directed the Division of Public Health Administration until 1977.
[5] She helped modernize the School's programs, its clinical and practice experience, and the transformation of the General Preventive Medicine Residency.
[1] From 1986 to 2018, she served as the associate chair of the Master of Public Health program.
[1][2] Schoenrich died on September 12, 2020, from congestive heart failure at her home in Ruxton, Maryland.