Leadership

Fire Commissioner

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Robert S. Tucker

First Deputy Commissioner

The FDNY Commissioner, appointed by the Mayor of the City of New York, is a civilian executive who manages the agency’s more than 17,000 employees and $2 billion annual budget. The current Fire Commissioner is Robert S. Tucker.

For 25 years, Commissioner Tucker has directed the strategic growth and diversification of T&M, since becoming a principal of the company in 1999. Prior to that he spent nearly a decade in law enforcement management, serving as special assistant in the Office of the Queens County District Attorney, where he developed an extensive network of contacts in the law enforcement community while managing administrative aspects of a major urban prosecutor's office. This experience enabled him to work closely with executive level members of the New York City Police Department and the city administration, as well as with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Secret Service, and the different local U.S. Attorney's Offices, where he still maintains valuable relationships.

Among his many professional, civic and philanthropic affiliations, Commissioner Tucker currently serves as secretary of the FDNY Foundation and as an honorary Fire commissioner, a member of the Board of Trustees and treasurer of the New York City Police Foundation and an honorary Police commissioner, and past president of the Associated Licensed Detectives of New York state. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of White Plains Hospital and a former member of the Young Presidents' Organization, Metro Chapter.

In 2009, former New York Governor David Paterson appointed Commissioner Tucker to serve as a vice chairman of the New York state Security Guard Advisory Council and, in 2013, he was appointed as the council's chairman, where he served until 2021. In 2014, the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the State of New York appointed Tucker as a member of the Committee on Character and Fitness for the Ninth Judicial District. In 2018, he was appointed to Pace University's Board of Trustees.

Commissioner Tucker has been honored by the New York Board of Rabbis and the Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City.

He is a graduate of The George Washington University and Pace University School of Law.