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E-mail: mfisher130@msn.com
B.A. Trinity College; J.D. Antioch University School of Law. Member of the bars of Washington D.C. and Washington State.
Margaret Fisher is an attorney with 28 years of full-time experience educating the public in the law. She taught the Street Law program at Georgetown University Law Center for five years and for the last 24 years at Seattle University School of Law. She spent a year as a Senior Fulbright Scholar setting up public legal education programs in Southern Africa high schools.
She works part-time for the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts to develop curriculum for judges and staff in the judiciary. She is author of many national and state law-related curricula, including the national Street Law materials, the American Bar Association’s Youth Court Training Package for Youth Volunteers, and conflict resolution materials for a secondary school textbook. Ms. Fisher is the advisor and board member of the Washington State Council on Public legal Education and heads up its efforts to establish and strengthen youth courts in Washington and to partner judges and teachers in high schools. She is the winner of the 2004 Isidore Starr Award for Excellence in Law-Related Education, presented by the American Bar Association Division for Public Education. In addition, she authored the award-winning National Youth Court Training Package and the Roadmap on Youth Courts: Young People Delivering Justice for the American Bar Association. The Roadmap was featured in the United Nations Report on the State of the World’s Children 2003.
She is co-author of the national Street Law textbooks for high schools, now in its 7th edition. She was recognized for her accomplishments in the field of law-related education with the 2004 Isidore Starr Award for Excellence in Law-Related Education, presented by the American Bar Association Division for Public Education.