 Fagg was the fourth dean of Kellogg School of Management, from 1937 to 1939.Fagg was also the second of three directors of the short-lived Bureau of Air Commerce in the United States Department of Commerce, from March 1937 to April 1938.Fagg's son, Fred D. Fagg III was dean of the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark (unaffiliated with Northwestern University, now Lewis and Clark Law School.)