Published June 17. 2026 11:00AM<\/p>\n
Coplay Mayor Bill Leiner Jr. is no stranger to the borough and service to the community.<\/p>\n
During his interview by Coplay Borough Council June 2, Leiner detailed more than 30 years serving in various elected positions.<\/p>\n
His public service first started in the early 1990s as a member of the Coplay Health Board. He was named secretary of that board, ultimately becoming the borough\u2019s deputy health officer.<\/p>\n
In 1995, Leiner was elected to Coplay Borough Council. He assumed the role of mayor two years later, retaining the seat in 2001 and 2005 elections.<\/p>\n
Leiner moved to county government in 2007, winning a seat as an at-large commissioner for Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
In 2011, he returned to Coplay Borough Council.<\/p>\n
Leiner then earned a seat on the Whitehall-Coplay School Board in 2015, serving as a director for five years. He resigned from that role to battle a cancer diagnosis and take time to recuperate.<\/p>\n
In 2022, he set his sights on serving as a Lehigh County judge of elections, retaining that post for four years.<\/p>\n
Leiner\u2019s present appointment in borough government makes him the longest-serving Democratic mayor in Coplay\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
He said he plans to work with the current police chief and council to improve the police department by returning to community policing to better serve residents.<\/p>\n
Leiner is a retired Bethlehem steelworker with 27 years of employment. There, he acted as a United Steelworkers of America local union leader.<\/p>\n
He is a registered nurse and American Nurses Credentialing Center board-certified RN specializing in mental health\/psychiatry. He is currently employed by New Vitae Wellness & Recovery as a community outreach liaison\/nurse consultant.<\/p>\n
Leiner is also an independent contractor for Lehigh Valley Press, covering community and municipal events.<\/p>\n
He and his wife, Cynthia, will celebrate 32 years of marriage this September. He has six adult children and 10 grandchildren. The family, Leiner added, has a treasured dog named Benny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published June 17. 2026 11:00AM Coplay Mayor Bill Leiner Jr. is no stranger to the borough and service…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-221434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}