Edmund B Fitzgerald

Edmund B. Fitzgerald was managing director of Woodmont Associates of Nashville, Tenn., a business advisory services firm he founded following his retirement from Northern Telecom Limited (now Nortel Networks Corp.) in July 1990. Mr. Fitzgerald served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Northern Telecom Limited in Mississauga (Toronto), Canada, from 1985 until 1990 and as president from 1982 to 1985. Previously he served as president, Northern Telecom Inc., Nashville, Tenn., the company’s U.S. Subsidiary, when he joined in 1980. Prior to joining Northern Telecom he had been, for 15 years, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cutler-Hammer, Inc., of Milwaukee, and industrial automation and electronic weapon systems company founded by his grandfather, Frank R. Bacon.. Following a merger of Cutler-Hammer and the Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, in 1979 he briefly became Vice Chairman of the Eaton Corporation. In 1970, Mr. Fitzgerald was a co-founder of the Milwaukee Brewers Major League Baseball team and subsequently served as its chairman until 1982. From 1975 until 1982, he served as a member of the Executive Council of Major League Baseball and as Chairman of Major League Baseball’s Player Relations Committee, which was responsible for baseball’s labor relations. Mr. Fitzgerald received a BSE (EE) Degree from the Engineering School of the University of Michigan. He served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II and again during the Korean War, emerging as a Captain. Mr. Fitzgerald married the former Elisabeth McKee Christensen in Milwaukee. They had four children, Karen Lindsay, Denver, Colo., Kathleen F. Picoli, Long Island, N.Y., E. Greer Fitzgerald, Ironwood, Mich., and Rogers C. Fitzgerald, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and nine grandchildren.