Director Debra Bower has resigned from the Northern Lehigh School Board on Monday.

Before the 6-0 vote, board President Gary Fedorcha said Bower submitted her letter of resignation with regrets due to health reasons.

Superintendent Matthew Link thanked Bower for her service.

Fedorcha said the board plans to advertise the vacancy and appoint a new board member at the board’s April 9 meeting.

The new board member will serve until 2019. At that point, the seat will be only a two-year seat to complete the end of Bower’s term, which expires in 2021.

Bower was appointed to the board in March 2016.

She replaced former Director Natalie Green, who resigned from her seat in February 2016.

Green was originally appointed to the board in June 2010.