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Klingerman, of Mainville, holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Columbia University, where he also earned two varsity letters in football and was once named Ivy League honorable mention. He is currently vice president of JDK Management Co., which operates nursing facilities, hotels and restaurants and oversees land development projects.

Klingerman has owned and operated nursing care and assisted living facilities in northeast Pennsylvania since 1981. For the past 35 years, Klingerman has owned Klingerman Farms, which produces soybeans, corn, wheat and beef cattle on more than 800 acres in Columbia County and formerly owned and operated Klingerman Feed and Grain Center.

Klingerman served on the Bloomsburg Area School Board from 1977 to 1992, including two terms as president, and was a member and president during the inception and completion of the new middle school. He obtained certification as a licensed nursing home administrator in 1983. Klingerman was appointed to the Council of Trustees in May 2007.