Atty. Kent Herman has been elected Chair of the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission.

Herman, a Salisbury Township resident, most recently served as the commission's Vice Chair.

The commission, which includes Lehigh and Northampton counties, works to guide orderly growth and provides a wide range of services to that end.

Herman is a founding partner of King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC. He concentrates his practice in municipal and affordable housing law.

King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul, LLC, is a diversified civil law firm with principal offices in downtown Bethlehem and satellite offices in Allentown and Stroudsburg, as well as an affiliated office in Pittsburgh.