Fritz is a retired lawyer who has been a full-time resident of Nantucket for seven years, and is very active in the community. He is a member of the Town of Nantucket Planning Board, the Nantucket Planning and Economic Development Commission, the Town of Nantucket Coastal Resilience Committee, and a trustee and immediate past President of the Egan Maritime Institute. Fritz first came to Nantucket in 1966 and he and his wife bought their first summer home here in 1983. Fritz joined the Fairwinds Board recently, following the death of his wife Bay from a rare form of ovarian cancer.