Meet Steve

PA State Rep. Steven C. Mentzer was first elected to represent the citizens of the 97th Legislative District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 2012. For the 2025-26 session, Mentzer has been appointed to serve as the Republican Chairman of Aging and Older Adult Services Committee, and as a member of the Intergovernmental Affairs and Operations Committee.

Mentzer worked as a financial consultant at Smith Barney and as account executive at Merrill Lynch, where he managed portfolios totaling $40 million in assets. He then founded Central American Relief Efforts, a non-profit organization that mobilizes U.S. volunteers and humanitarian aid to impoverished areas of Central America. Mentzer is an elder at First Presbyterian Church where he organized the Presbyterian Medical Equipment Delivery Project. As part of the project, he led several teams of missionaries to collect donated medical and surgical supplies from U.S. hospitals and redistribute them to third-world countries.

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