Richard E. Constable III 

Richard E. Constable, III, the sixteenth Commissioner of the DCA, was appointed by Governor Chris Christie in 2012.

At the time of his appointment, Commissioner Constable was serving as Deputy Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, where he functioned as the chief operating officer, managing day-to-day operations, including the services of unemployment insurance, workforce development, workplace standards, and budget and accounting. Prior to joining the Christie Administration, Constable worked in the United States Attorney’s Office as an Assistant U.S. Attorney since 2002, last serving in the Special Prosecutions Division handling public corruption cases. He also taught as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School and Fordham Law School. Constable began his career in private practice at the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in New York, and served as a law clerk for The Honorable Alan Page, Minnesota Supreme Court Justice.

Constable is currently Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Commercial Contracts at Wyndham Worldwide, a global hospitality company.

Constable received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan and earned his Juris Doctorate and Masters in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Fels Institute of Government.