SF Fire Commissioners

Armie Morgan is a Bay Area native and currently works as a business representative for the Operating Engineers Local 3 union.

Operating Engineers Local 3 is the largest construction trades local in the U.S., representing over 37,000 members across our four-state jurisdiction of California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. From heavy equipment operators and mechanics, to surveyors, construction inspectors, highway maintenance workers, police officers, and other public employees, it represents the workers who drive this country’s economy.

Before his work at Local 3, Morgan was a Heavy Equipment Operator and Foreman for 18 years and helped represent over 2,000 operating engineers in San Francisco and the Peninsula area as well as worked with community-based organizations to promote and recruit for apprenticeships and the CityBuild programs.

Armie has served as a delegate for the San Francisco Building Trades Council, San Francisco Labor Council, and San Francisco Metal Trades Council Alternate. He is also a facilitator of the Labor and Industrial Relations module at Stanford University as well as a member of the Operating Engineers Joint Apprenticeship Sub-Committee at Local 3, training pre-apprenticeship candidates through San Francisco CityBuild in general construction engineering.

Morgan is a graduate of San Jose City College.

Marcy Fraser was appointed by Mayor London Breed in May of 2022. She is a proud San Francisco native and an RN. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University in Nursing. At the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, she was part of the first team of nurses who volunteered to work on Ward 5B at San Francisco General Hospital, the world's first AIDS inpatient ward. During her career she took full advantage of her education to work across the spectrum of health services, including; home care and hospice, public health, cancer, clinical research, quality improvement and mental health. In order to be a more effective advocate for health care and services, she returned to school and completed an MBA. She worked as the Executive Director of an HIV health services nonprofit in the Tenderloin, and served on several health and medical mayoral advisory committees. Her community work includes as a member of the Board of Directors of the National AIDS Memorial, OpenHouse, and the Ryan White/HIV Planning Council.

Appointed in 1996 by Mayor Willie Brown, Mr. Nakajo served as President of the Commission from 2000 to 2004 and again in 2010.  Mr. Nakajo was Vice President since 2004, was reappointed in 2004 and in 2008 by Mayor Gavin Newsom and was reappointed by Mayor Edwin M. Lee on March 12, 2012, and again on January 16th, 2020 by Mayor London Breed.  Mr. Nakajo served as Commission Vice-President in 2013, 2017, and 2018. 

Mr. Nakajo was the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Kimochi, Senior Center, which serves the needs of the Japanese American Senior Community.   He was also the Co-Founder of Nihomachi Street Fair.  Mr. Nakajo was the organizer in 2017-2018 of the Japantown Business District and is currently the Executive Director of the Japantown Task Force.  He was awarded the KGO Profile in Excellence and the KQED Asian American Heritage Award.  He was awarded from the Counsel General in 2016 the Foreign Minister Commendation and in 2018 the Order of the Rising Son Gold & Silver Rays.  He was also the SPUR Award Winner in 2017.  He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science and a Master's in Social Welfare from San Francisco State University. 

A native San Franciscan, Katherine Feinstein was appointed to the Fire Commission by Mayor London Breed on January 16, 2020. Having spent her 36-year legal career in public service, Feinstein served as a Superior Court Judge for 12 years, presiding over civil, criminal, juvenile and family law matters, prior to her election as Presiding Judge.

Feinstein’s public service includes membership on the Commission on Judicial Performance, the Supreme Court’s Domestic Violence Task Force and prior legal work as Supervising Attorney of the Family & Children’s Division of the City Attorney’s Office, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, and as an Assistant District Attorney.

Feinstein’s community engagement includes membership on the Board of John Burton Advocates for Youth, and past membership on the Boards of the Edgewood Center for Children & Families and the California Medical Board. She is also a former Member of the San Francisco Police Commission.

Commissioner Collins is a Founder, Chief Executive Officer and business owner with extensive experience real estate development. She has spent decades as a director of private and public companies and nonprofit organizations. She is an active civic leader in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was appointed by President Obama to the board of the Presidio Trust which she chaired for several years. In 2023 she was named Chair of the Board of the American Automobile Association while concurrently serving as a board member of affiliated automobile club and insurance companies. She is a frequent speaker both nationally and internationally on the topic of community economic development.

She is the recipient of the Silver Spur Award which recognizes outstanding individuals whose achievements exemplify the highest aspirations of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Commissioner Collins raised her family in San Francisco where she focuses on public safety and social justice.