A veteran prosecutor has attained the number two position in the Schuylkill County District Attorney's office, as the county Salary Board on Wednesday approved the salary of William C. Reiley as first assistant district attorney.
"I am grateful to attorney Reiley for taking this position," District Attorney Karen Noon said after the board, which includes the county commissioners and Controller Christy Joy, recently approved his annual salary of $70,918.
Reiley, 54, of Pottsville, assumes the position Noon occupied before she replaced James P. Goodman, who resigned as district attorney in order to assume the county judgeship to which he was elected on Nov. 8, 2011.
A 1979 graduate of Bloomsburg State College, now Bloomsburg University, and 1983 graduate of Delaware Law School, now Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Del., Reiley most recently has served as the part-time assistant district attorney in charge of prosecuting cases brought by the Schuylkill County Drug Task Force in addition to handling his own solo law practice in the city.
Reiley is looking forward to his new full-time post, which will include added administrative and prosecutorial duties as well as continuing to handle drug task force cases.
"It's a real honor to work for Karen," he said. "She sets a tough pace."
As part of his duties, Reiley will prosecute cases heard at the office of Magisterial District Judge Carol A. Pankake, Tremont. Pankake's district includes Barry, Branch, Cass, Eldred, Foster, Frailey, Hegins, Hubley, Pine Grove, Porter, Reilly, Tremont, Upper Mahantongo and Washington townships and Pine Grove, Tower City and Tremont boroughs.
Reiley also has served as solicitor for the county clerk of courts and coroner and the Branch and Reilly townships and Cressona and North Manheim Township zoning hearing boards. He is president of the Schuylkill County Bar Association, a Pottsville city councilman and a member of the State Board of Certified Real-Estate Appraisers.