Alicia McCoy

Alicia McCoy retired in 2021 from Abbott Laboratories Fire Department, where she served as fire chief during her 24-year tenure on the department. All told, she spent 36 years working in Northern Illinois in various roles in volunteer, part-time and full-time departments. McCoy is a founding member, past president and a current director of Fire Service Women of Illinois. She also serves as a board member of the Illinois MABAS Foundation. McCoy runs a training and consulting business, where she frequently addresses groups to empower girls and women and to provide a view into the ways that outlook and environment can be changed and how to break the mold when entering a nontraditional role.