Commissioner Brian Q. Bochow, Jr. is a lifelong, third generation resident of Mount Vernon. On January 4, 2010, at the age of 28, he became the youngest commissioner in the history of the City of Mount Vernon when Mayor Clinton Young appointed him Commissioner of the Board of Water Supply.

Commissioner Bochow graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1999, where was a three-year varsity baseball letterman and served as captain in his senior year. Thereafter, he attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, where he graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Political Science and minor in Sociology. In the summer following his junior year at Wake Forest, Commissioner Bochow successfully completed an internship at Former President Bill Clinton’s Office in Harlem, New York. Commissioner Bochow would go on to earn his Master of Science in Urban Affairs from CUNY—Hunter College in August of 2007.

Just after starting work on his master’s degree, he began working for the Westchester County Board of Legislators working for then Legislator Clinton Young as well as staffing the Board’s Committee on Public Works, Transportation, Labor, and Parks. He went on to be appointed Deputy Chief of Staff/Press Secretary for the City of Mount Vernon in January of 2008, a position he held until his current appointment as Water Commissioner.

Commissioner Bochow is married and lives with his wife, Michelle, in Mount Vernon.