Fritz L. Duda
AFoCR Director Fritz L. Duda is chief executive officer of Genus Holdings, LLC, a Dallas-based investment company and the owner and founder of the Fritz Duda Company, a privately held real estate development company with offices in Newport Beach, California, and Chicago, Illinois He has served on the boards of a number of private and public companies and was a founding investor and director of HMI Acquisitions and, subsequently, The Vons Companies, Inc., from 1985 to 1997, when the company was combined with Safeway.
He served on the University of Notre Dame College of Engineering and Architecture Advisory Council from 1991 to 1997 and was named a Trustee of the University in 1997. He has served as Chair of the Notre Dame Board of Trustees Campus Planning and Facilities Committee and is Chair of the International Facilities Committee. He received an honorary doctorate of laws from the University in 2009. He is a Trustee of the University of California’s Hastings College of Law 1066 Foundation and is a member of the Knights of Malta.
Mr. Duda is a graduate of the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, where he received his L.L.B. and J.D. degree in 1964 and is a member of the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association. Mr. Duda is married to Mary Lee Nagle Duda of Iowa City, Iowa, a graduate of the University of Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Duda have six children.