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Rebecca Denlinger (January 28, 1966 - ) Born in Cincinnati Ohio Becky was the first woman fire fighter and fire chief in Georgia, she was Fire Chief of the Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services department in the metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia area from 1997-2008 supervising 29 fire stations and over 500 fire fighting personnel. She served on numerous committees, boards, and councils during her tenure as chief, including the Georgia Homeland Security Task Force and the National Infrastructure Advisory Council to which she was appointed by President G.W. Bush. She was recruited by the British Columbia government and served as BC Fire Commissioner from 2008 until 2013. With some overlap she was also Assistant Deputy Minister, Emergency Management BC 2009 – 2012, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development 2012 – 2015, Deputy Minister for Emergency Management, Ministry of Transportation 2015 – 2017 and Deputy Minister for Emergency Management, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General 2017 – 2019. Becky currently serves on the Board of Directors of Oceans Networks Canada. She is also a visiting fellow at the Western Academy for Advanced Research at the University of Western Ontario. Becky served as Deputy Minister, Assistant Deputy Minister and Fire Commissioner for B.C. She was a member of the Senior Officials Responsible for Emergency Management, the Canadian Council of Emergency Management Organizations, the Canadian Council of Fire Marshals and Fire Commissioners and was active in numerous international, national, provincial and regional emergency management and fire service committees. Prior to joining the B.C. Public Service, Becky graduated from Thomas Edison State University, completed the Harvard Senior Executives in State and Local Government Fellowship Program, and completed the Chief Fire Officer Designation from the Center for Public Safety Excellence. She is a past Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers, and active member of the National Fire Protection Association, the International Association of Fire Chiefs, and its Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Section.