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Education
M.N.O, Case Western Reserve University, 2004
J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1976
B.A., Oberlin College, 1973
Profile
Lee Fisher is the Dean and Joseph C. Hostetler-BakerHostetler Chair in Law at the CSU College of Law.
Fisher’s diverse career has spanned the private, public, nonprofit and academic sectors. In addition to serving as dean, he is a senior fellow at Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Public Affairs and Education, and an Urban Scholar at the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Fisher served for six years as President/CEO of CEOs for Cities, a national innovation network for city success.
Fisher clerked for Judge Paul C. Weick of the U.S Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. He has decades of experience in legal practice, most extensively with Cleveland-based Hahn Loeser as Of Counsel from 1978-1990 and Partner from 1995-1999. He served as Ohio Attorney General and was the first Ohio Attorney General to personally argue cases before the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
In addition to serving as Attorney General, Fisher has served as Ohio Lt. Governor, Director of the Ohio Department of Development, Chair of Ohio Third Frontier Commission and as a state senator and state representative. He also served as President and CEO of the Centers for Families and Children. Fisher is a graduate of Oberlin College and served on the Oberlin College Board of Trustees for 12 years. He earned his law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he was the first recipient of the School of Law’s Distinguished Recent Graduate Award and was inducted into the School of Law’s Society of Benchers. He also earned his Master of Nonprofit Organization from the CWRU Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
Fisher is married to Peggy Zone Fisher, President and CEO of the Diversity Center for Northeast Ohio. They have two children, Jason, an actor in Los Angeles and Jessica, a 2018 graduate of Cleveland State University.