Personal Reflections on the Life of Former Senator Milton Frett at His Passing

Former V.I. lawmaker and law enforcement leader Milton Frett died in California on Tuesday. Among those paying tribute was Gov. Albert Bryan Jr., who remembered Frett as a family friend.

Senate President Novelle Francis and Sen. Dwayne DeGraff — who both served in the Virgin Islands Police Department — praised Frett’s leadership as police commissioner. Frett, who was known by the nickname “Bull,” served as commissioner under former Gov. Alexander Farrelly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. “We lost one of the greats,” DeGraff said. In extending his condolence message, Bryan said he felt Frett’s death on a personal level because he and the governor’s father were friends.

“To my family and me, ‘Bull’ was more than a public servant — he was a force. A two-term senator, a businessman, and a decades-long law enforcement leader, he always had the back of the people of the Virgin Islands,” Bryan said. The governor called his family’s friend a man of “courage, heart and strength.”