[1] Scheid was a member of the Senate's Commerce and Consumer Protection, Education, and Judiciary and Public Safety committees.

[5] Her special legislative concerns included public school funding, property tax reform, parent involvement in student learning, crime prevention, health care, election and ethics issues, jobs and economic development, E-16 education, funding for roads and transit, and business.

She spent her last weeks at home with her family and friends, where she was in hospice care until her death on June 15, 2011, one day before her birthday.

[7] After college, Scheid served in the United States Peace Corps, teaching English in Asmara, Ethiopia.

She was also a member of the League of Women Voters, the Minneapolis Girls' Club, and the Mrs. Jaycees, of which she was a former state vice president.