Ted P. Fritz is the Vice Chancellor of the Office of Public Safety & Emergency Management at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 2012, Mr. Fritz has been responsible for the oversight of the environmental health and safety, police, security, and emergency management departments at Pitt. Mr. Fritz also served as an attorney at the University of Pittsburgh from 1998-2013. As counsel at Pitt, he litigated employment, student, constitutional, and contract matters in addition to performing other advisory duties in the areas of student affairs, public safety, international programs, and cyber law.
Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, he served as a Captain on active duty as a prosecutor and legal and ethics advisor in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps while assigned to the 24th and 3rd Infantry Divisions and U.S. Army Recruiting Command. Mr. Fritz earned his Juris Doctor degree cum laude from Stetson University College of Law in 1993, where he interned with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and was a special prosecutor in the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida. Prior to that, he was commissioned in the U.S. Army as a Distinguished Military Graduate, magna cum laude, in Criminology/Pre-Law from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1991.
Mr. Fritz leads Pitt’s threat assessment management team and is a member of Pitt’s export controls committee, campus climate assessment team, University safety committee, and global risk committee. Mr. Fritz is the chair of the Chancellor’s Public Safety Advisory Council. He is also a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Executive Committee (Pittsburgh office), the DHS Pittsburgh Public Safety/Public Assembly group, the U.S. Department of State Overseas Security Advisory Council, the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), and the Atlantic Coast Conference Emergency Managers group. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
