Mayor (2004 To present)
John B. Callahan

10 East Church Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018
(610) 865-7100

John Callahan was sworn in as the mayor of Bethlehem, the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, on January 5, 2004. He was elected mayor in November 2003 in a landslide victory not only taking over 60% of the votes but also sweeping every ward in the city. Mayor Callahan had a second landslide victory in the 2005 primary and ran unopposed in the general election. He was sworn into office for his first four-year term mandated by voters on January 3, 2006.

Mayor Callahan served on Bethlehem City Council from 1998-2004. When he was elected to City Council in 1998, he became the youngest Councilman in the history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He chaired the Finance Committee and the Public Works Committee.

Mayor Callahan has been the longest serving President of the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities and has served the League as 2nd and 1st Vice President, and is a member of the National League of Cities’ Policy Committee on Energy, Environment and Natural Resources. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation, and the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission, as well as the Minsi Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America, for which he is also the Chair of the Urban Scouting Program in Bethlehem and serves on the Advisory Council for the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania. In addition, Mayor Callahan is the Co-Chair of South Side Vision 2012 and also a member of the Pennsylvania Society and Bethlehem Rotary.

Mayor Callahan grew up on the West Side of Bethlehem and graduated Cum Laude with a B.S. in Biology from Moravian College. Before becoming Mayor of the City of Bethlehem Callahan was a Senior Institutional Healthcare Consultant for Pfizer, Inc., a “Fortune 20” company. The company had employed him for 13 years. He and his wife, Mafalda, have three children and reside in Northeast Bethlehem.