[2] Fitzgerald served in the U.S. Army infantry during World War II.

[1][2][3] Governor William Milliken appointed Fitzgerald to a one-year term on the Michigan Supreme Court in 1973.

[1] Fitzgerald was a member of the original board of directors of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and also taught as an adjunct, teaching the first property-law class there in 1983.

[1][2] Fitzgerald died on July 7, 2006, at Mackinac Straits Hospital in St. Ignace, after a long illness, at age 81.

[1] Fitzgerald's papers are archived at the Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan.