Rich Fitzgerald

Rich Fitzgerald took office on January 3, 2012. Rich grew up in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield-Garfield neighborhood. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a business minor from Carnegie Mellon University. Rich started a small business, Aquenef, which provides water treatment equipment and services for industry in the Western Pennsylvania region. Rich worked on the campaign to change the form of government in Allegheny County. In 1999, he ran for one of the district council seats on the newly-formed County Council and was elected to represent a district that included suburban municipalities and city neighborhoods. He held the seat for twelve years and was elected as Council President four times before leaving to run for the office of County Executive. In early January 2024, Rich started working as the full-time Executive Director of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC), the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization for Southwestern PA. He and his wife, Cathy, a pharmacist, live in Squirrel Hill. They have eight children.