Fisher, John B.

Submitted by Mike Miller April 1998

Fisher, John B., judge of the first city criminal court, New Orleans, was born in the city of New Orleans, La., Dec. 20, 1862; son of John A. G. and Mary S.(Garrett) Fisher, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in New York. The parents were married at Peoria, Ill., and a short time prior to the Civil war came to Louisiana and located at New Orleans, where the father followed his profession, that of a practicing physician, throughout the remainder of his active life. His death occurred in the year 1889. John B. Fisher, the son, passed the days of his childhood and youth in the City of New Orleans, where he graduated from the Jesuit college. Later the young man entered the law school of Tulane university of Louisiana, and in due time graduated from that institution with the class of 1883. He lost little time before opening offices and beginning the practice of his profession at the city of his nativity, where his abilities and promise as an attorney won rapid recognition in the ranks of the profession as also among the laity, the sterling qualities of his character as a man being a powerful factor in drawing to him a most desirable clientele. When 5 years from the date of his graduation the young attorney had been admitted to practice before the Supreme court of the United States. In May, 1909, he was appointed to fill an unexpired term as judge of the First Criminal court, at New Orleans, and in Nov. 1912, without opposition, he was elected to succeed himself as incumbent of that office. In politics Judge Fisher is affiliated with the democratic party and has at all times been active in the support of democratic principles and the interests of his party, wherein his abilities also won early recognition. Prior to accepting a position on the bench, he served as a delegate to the national democratic convention in 1904, and also a member of the Louisiana state central committee for several years. In 1889 he was a delegate to the semi-religious Catholic convention that met at Baltimore, and was elected one of the national secretaries of the association. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1896 Judge Fisher was married to Miss Alberta Long, of Louisville, Ky. To Judge and Mrs. Fisher 2 children have been born, these being, in order of their birth, John Long and Auren Augustus.

Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 520-521. Edited by Alcee Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.