Since her appointment in February 2002, Rose Gill Hearn has presided over numerous successful investigations, including one that led to the arrests of 18 tax assessors for taking bribes and another that led to the guilty plea of a New York City Councilman who extorted a real estate developer seeking City approval to build a multi-million dollar waterfront development project in Brooklyn.

Prior to her appointment, Commissioner Gill Hearn was Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In that capacity, she coordinated cases with a variety of federal and state law enforcement agencies and supervised federal prosecutors in all aspects of grand jury investigations and prosecutions. She also supervised the Crime Control Strategies Unit, which implemented and supervised community-police outreach programs, including Weed & Seed programs, in a variety of neighborhoods. She also utilized a new crime data collection system that helped prosecutors address crime trends within the city. Her successful trials of fraud, theft, narcotics and money laundering cases earned awards from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York City Police Department, U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Postal Inspection Service.