Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will name FDNY veteran and former EMS chief Lillian Bonsignore to take the reins for New York’s Bravest, sources told The Post.
Bonsignore, a 31-year member of the department who retired in 2022, will be just the second woman to lead the FDNY in the department’s history.
Mamdani is tapping FDNY veteran Lillian Bonsignore as the department’s next commissioner, sources say. FDNY
Former FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker resigned in protest one day after Mamdani (above) won the election. Stephen Yang for the NY Post
She replaces Robert Tucker, who turned in his resignation last month, one day after Mamdani soundly defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the mayoral race.
Bonsignore is a 31-year member of the department. FDNY
Tucker, who is Jewish, said he refused to serve under the former state assemblyman from Queens, a Muslim whose Democratic socialist agenda has rattled some in the city.
Bonsignore served as chief of EMS operations from 2019 to 2022, and was the highest-ranking officer and the highest-ranking woman in the EMS — the first to ever achieve a four-star rank.
Since her retirement, she has been a senior adviser at Cambridge Consulting Group.
Bonsignore will be the second woman to lead the FDNY in the department’s history, after Laura Kavanaugh (left). FDNY
The mayor-elect was expected to officially announce Bonsignore’s hiring on Tuesday afternoon.