Brad Case is an FM&I specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency Region (FEMA) 6 in Denton, Texas where he has responsibility for approximately 460 communities from Dallas–Fort Worth to Mexico and the Gulf. He has worked almost two decades in disaster risk reduction and hazard mitigation at local, state, and federal levels and in the private sector. He came to floodplain management in the planning department for the Town of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, a small barrier island community with intense development pressure and extreme coastal flood risk where he managed National Flood Insurance Program compliance, participation in the Community Rating System, and permitting (or denying) everything from signs and fences to floodplain development and commercial design standards. He moved to New Orleans in 2008 to work in the newly formed Hazard Mitigation Office and eventually became the city’s second director of disaster risk reduction. After this, Case sought the calm and serenity of the private sector where he worked as a consultant to local and state governments from Florida to New York. During this time, he managed over $500 million in hazard mitigation projects on behalf of the State of New York. During the pandemic, Case worked in mitigation planning for FEMA Region 4 before finding a much shorter commute from his home in Dallas to FEMA Region 6.
He has a BA in public administration from Auburn University and in economics from the University of Alabama. He enjoys playing and watching soccer, running, biking, traveling, and playing pranks on his wife with his 4-year-old daughter.