Jonathan Mintz was appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in March 2006. Prior to his appointment, Mintz served in the Department for over four years as Acting Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, and Assistant Commissioner. Since 2002, Commissioner Mintz has modernized and directed the Department's services to serve consumers and businesses in the City's diverse marketplace; forged innovative and strategic partnerships with a broad array of stakeholders in the private, public and nonprofit sectors; and expanded the reach of the agency to new industries and objectives.

During Commissioner Mintz's tenure, the Department has pursued large-scale litigation and enforcement efforts aimed at ending industry-wide deceptive practices; significantly increased the volume of New Yorkers educated and helped in key financial service areas such as debt collection and tax preparation; led the nation's most comprehensive campaign to boost the awareness and uptake of the Earned Income Tax Credit for working families and individuals; and cracked down on critical public health and safety initiatives such as curbing illegal sales of both cigarettes to minors and dangerous, realistic-looking fake guns. In addition, Commissioner Mintz worked with peer agencies to implement the City's first Coordinated Street Furniture Franchise, bringing beautiful new newsstand structures, bus shelters, and public toilets to the bustling streets of New York.

Commissioner Mintz is currently implementing Mayor Bloomberg's aggressive efforts to fight poverty through DCA's Office of Financial Empowerment – a bold initiative to educate, empower, and protect workers with low incomes so they can make the most of their financial resources. OFE represents a unique approach to poverty reduction and long-term financial stability by adding, for the first time, a mandate to local government to help people of modest means not just get the money they earned, but help them save and grow their money.

Building on OFE's work, Commissioner Mintz founded and is Co-Chair of the Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE), a coalition of municipal governments nationwide committed to aggressively and creatively leveraging local opportunities, resources, and powers to improve the financial health of their residents.

Before working for DCA, Mintz taught second grade at the Little Red School House in Greenwich Village. Prior to that he was a member of the founding faculty of the Roger Williams University School of Law, taught at the Chicago Kent College of Law, and practiced at San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown and Enersen. He earned his Juris Doctor from Cornell University and also holds a Masters degree in Education from Bank Street College.