Except for a brief teaching tenure at Appomattox High School, Marc Schewel has worked all his adult life at Schewel Furniture Company, where he is currently president. Schewel Furniture Company is a retail furniture chain with 47 stores in Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia. Schewel, his brother and sister are the fourth generation to own and operate this family business which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1997.

He is involved in numerous community service activities. He is currently chairman of the Lynchburg Jewish Community Council, chairman of the New Vistas School board of trustees, and chairman of the Churches of Urban Ministry business advisory board. He is past president of the YMCA, past president of the Southern Home Furnishings Association, past chairman of the National Conference of Community and Justice, and past state chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'Rith. He also serves on the boards of SunTrust Bank Mid-Atlantic Region, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, The Salvation Army, and the Lynchburg College School of Business.

He is a native of Lynchburg and a graduate of E. C. Glass High School and Washington and Lee University.