Ted P. Fritz is the vice chancellor of Pitt’s Office of Public Safety & Emergency Management.
Since 2012, Fritz has been responsible for overseeing the departments of environmental health and safety, police, security, and emergency management. As a valued voice in campus safety, Fritz leads Pitt’s threat assessment management team, serves as the chair of the public safety advisory council, and is a member of Pitt’s campus climate assessment team and the export controls, University safety, and global risk committees.
From 1998 to 2013, Fritz served as an attorney at Pitt, litigating employment, student, constitutional, and contract matters and performing other advisory duties in the areas of student affairs, public safety, international programs, and cyber law.
Prior to his time at Pitt, Fritz 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. In 1991, Fritz 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 1993, he earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from Stetson University College of Law, 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.
In addition to his leadership roles at Pitt, Fritz serves as 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.
