Robert Fitzgerald joined the Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of Puerto Rico in August 2024 as an attorney in its Appellate Division. He practices primarily in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Before joining the office, Robert was a supervisory attorney in the Capital Habeas Unit at the Office of the Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada in its Las Vegas office. He represented state prisoners under sentence of death in federal habeas proceedings in Nevada, California, Arizona, and Nebraska and argued appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before that, Robert clerked for the Kansas Supreme Court and was a trial attorney in a state public defender office.

Robert earned his Juris Doctor from Washburn University School of Law where he was a member of the law journal and graduated magna cum laude. Robert also holds a Master of Laws from Maastricht University in The Netherlands.