Milestones Icon: Leona Stoecker

Longtime Longmont resident Leona Stoecker has been a cheerleader for the community since she and her husband moved to town in 1962.

She is best known as being the former Longmont mayor – serving from 1993 to 2001 before stepping down because of term limits on the job.

But Stoecker’s vast and wide-ranging resume of community service is a who’s who and a what’s what of the Longmont community scene.

She currently is the president of the Imagine! Foundation, which runs a center for people with cognitive disabilities. She also is the membership director at the Longmont Area Economic Council, where she formerly…