Councilor Raymond Baker
 District Four

Raymond Baker is the Councilman for District 4 in the City of Reading. District 4 encompasses the entirety of Northeast Reading including the neighborhoods of College Heights, Hampden Heights and Northmont.

Raymond has lived in the City for nearly a decade and District 4 for the past three years, the entire time serving our City and community as an Assistant District Attorney serving under Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams. Raymond graduated from the University of Baltimore Magna Cum Laude in 2014 with a degree in Criminal Justice and from the Penn State Dickinson School of Law in 2017 with a Juris Doctorate.

As a member of law enforcement, Raymond has prosecuted everything from Driving under the Influence to Homicides that have occurred in Reading and Berks County as a whole; in an effort to not only keep our City safe, but to attempt to assist in the rehabilitation and reduce recidivism among Reading and Berks County’s offenders. Raymond continues to serve as an Assistant District Attorney while serving District 4 as its Councilman.

Outside of work, Raymond has been a staple in the community as a volunteer in many city clean-ups, serving on the 2019 City of Reading Charter Review Commission, and participating yearly in the Berks County Bar Association’s “Book ‘Em!” Program; reading books to the youth of Reading to help encourage literacy in the City. Raymond has also served for the past 8 years in the Berks County Democratic Committee as a Committeeperson and from 2022-2025 on its Executive Board.

At home, Raymond is the loving husband to his wife Jennifer; and their little girl from Reading, Elena; and a practicing Roman Catholic. When he’s not busy on Husband or Dad duty; he enjoys weightlifting, jogging all over the city, playing video games, and taking Jen & Elena on many adventures. Raymond is here to fight for a more affordable Reading moving the city towards a Renaissance that all of her residents and citizens deserve.