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Donald "Don" Cunningham Jr. is the current President and CEO of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC). He previously served as executive of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of General Services, and as mayor and councilman of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As mayor, Cunningham is credited with leading an economic renaissance in Bethlehem, rejuvenating the city's two downtowns and helping kick-start Bethlehem's economy after the collapse Bethlehem Steel.〔 As the twice-elected Lehigh County executive, Cunningham restructured county operations to make economic growth and community regionalization the focus of his administration. Several major Lehigh Valley projects came to fruition during his tenure, including Coca-Cola Park, Boston Beer Company's largest brewery, and new Ocean Spray manufacturing operations. Cunningham was appointed to his position at LVEDC in July 2012. Before his political career, he also worked in corporate communications at PPL Corporation and as director of media and marketing operations at Moravian College. Cunning received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Shippensburg University and a master's degree in political science from Villanova University. ==Early life and career== Don Cunningham Jr. was born on December 13, 1965, to parents Don Sr. and Valerie Cunningham. His family had lived in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for five generations, and his father and grandfather were both steel workers at Bethlehem Steel. After 13 years in the Bethlehem Area School District, he graduated from the Freedom High School in 1983. During his time at Freedom he played football, ran track, worked on the student newspaper, and was the front man for a teenage rock band. Cunningham would later be inducted into the Freedom High School's hall of fame, entitled the "Circle of Excellence," in 2001. After high school, Cunningham was educated in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, where he went to Shippensburg University and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism and a minor in government in 1987. He then worked his way through graduate school, finishing summa cum laude with a Master of Arts Degree in political science from Villanova University (1991). Before seeking public office, Cunningham worked as a correspondent with ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' and as a reporter with the ''Globe-Times'' of Bethlehem, where he worked from 1988 to 1992,〔 covering city government. Afterward he worked as a spokesman for Moravian College, also in Bethlehem, from 1992 to 1993. He then worked as a senior information specialist at the PPL Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania.〔 Cunningham wrote in-house publications for the company.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Cunningham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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