JoshSiegel@lehighcounty.org
Josh Siegel was elected Lehigh County Executive on November 4th, 2025 at 31, making him the youngest elected county executive in the history of Pennsylvania. Despite his age, he brings with him nearly a decade involved and engaged in public service and politics. Siegel believes in the power and responsibility of the public sector to invest in safety, security and prosperity for the people.
Siegel worked in field organizing before joining county government in 2017 serving as Lehigh County's Public Information Officer for the previous county executive Phillips Armstrong. In that role, Siegel oversaw the creation of the county's first annual newsletter to better communicate with residents and youth government day to engage and involve the next generation of leadership. He also helped craft the county's first citizen's academy which offered county residents an opportunity to hear directly from county leaders about the budget and how their tax dollars were spent.
He then became Chief of Staff to Lehigh County Controller Mark Pinsley where he helped oversee an expansion of its performance audits and drafted policy reports around environmental sustainability, criminal justice reform and healthcare savings.
In 2019, Siegel was elected to Allentown City Council at 25, making him the youngest elected member at the time. During his time on city council, he passed paid family leave for city employees and ended the privatization of the city garage. He also fought for campaign finance reform and protections for reproductive rights at the local level. During his time, he was chair of the budget and finance committee in Allentown.
In 2022, Siegel was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives at 28 to represent the people of the 22nd Legislative District. In his time, he championed an increase to the minimum wage, paid family leave, affordable housing workers rights and economic development. Siegel served on the House Appropriations committees along with Housing and Community Development, Labor & Industry, Transportation, Communications and Technology and State Government.
Josh believes in the power of local government to shape the most important parts of people's lives, quality of life and quality of place. He wants Lehigh County to be a model for restoring trust and faith in government and democracy through decisive action and bold leadership. Josh believes that the government must be effective, responsive and ambitious in its aspirations.
As Lehigh County Executive his priorities are affordable housing and reducing homelessness, protecting access to vital healthcare like mental health and addiction treatment, maintaining public ownership of Cedarbrook, investing in public safety, expanding regionalization of critical services filling the gaps of leadership at the state and federal level to create security and prosperity for working families. Siegel's goal is to make the Lehigh Valley a place where every life is a life well lived.