James Martin Fitzgerald (October 7, 1920[1][2] – April 3, 2011[3][4][5]) was an American lawyer and judge.

Born on October 7, 1920, in Portland, Oregon, Fitzgerald was a private in the United States Army from 1940 to 1941.

[6] On December 2, 1974, Fitzgerald was nominated by President Gerald Ford to be a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, to a seat vacated by Judge Raymond Eugene Plummer.

He served as chief judge from 1984 to 1989 and assumed senior status on January 1, 1989.

He stopped hearing cases in 2006, but remained in inactive senior status until his death on April 3, 2011, in Santa Rosa, California.