Ed Pawlowski is the mayor of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He has held this office since January 2006.
Pawlowski is a Democrat. A Chicago native, he holds a Bachelor of Arts from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and a Master of Arts from the University of Illinois.
He served as Director of Community and Economic Development for the first three years of the administration of previous Allentown mayor Roy Afflerbach, but resigned in protest over a budget dispute. After Afflerbach decided not to run for re-election in 2005, Pawlowski decided to run to replace him. After winning a three-way Democratic primary, he won 59% of the vote and all Allentown precincts against Republican nominee and former mayor William Heydt and independent Michael Molovinsky.
He is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets."
In 2009, Ed Pawlowski ran for a second term. He ran against the city's first African American candidate, Republican Tony Phillips. In 2009, Phillips was involved in a sex scandal on Facebook that was later released to the public. Despite the scandal, Phillips still ran, but lost 7,908 votes to 2,837 votes.