NY POST: Mayor-elect Adams may tap FDNY lawyer as first female fire commissioner

NY POST: A top FDNY lawyer is a front-runner to become the next fire commissioner — and would be the first woman to have the job, The Post has learned.

Terryl Brown, 60, who joined the FDNY seven years ago as its chief legal counsel and deputy commissioner for legal affairs, is a finalist in Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ search to lead the nation’s largest fire department and its more than 17,000 uniformed and civilian employees, according to multiple sources in the FDNY and another close to Adams.

If she gets the job, Brown would make history as the first female – and only third African-American – to lead the FDNY since its inception in 1865....

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