Retired Superior Court Judge Lillian Fisher, grandmother of Tucson City Councilman Paul Cunningham passed away June 7. She was 93.
Judge Fisher received her undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and graduated from University of Arizona College of Law in 1963 and opened her own office. In 1974, she ran to be elected as a Pima County Superior Court Judge. She served as a Pima County Superior Court Judge for seventeen years.
The Lillian S. Fisher Prize in Environmental Law and Public Policy award is presented annually by the Udall Center to a student in the UA James E. Rogers College of Law or to a UA graduate student studying law and public policy.
Judge Fisher would have been 94 on June 18. According to the Arizona Jewish Post, Judge Fisher “received the University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences’ first Lifetime Achievement Award on April 15. Fisher was a founding member of the Magellan Circle, the donor society for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, which supports student travel, visiting scholars, faculty research and excellence-in-teaching awards.”
Judge Fisher was one of the founders of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association, and the National Association of Women Judges.
She is preceded in death by her late husband, Bernard. She is survived by her son Michael Fisher, and daughters Marjorie Cunningham and Anne Segal, as well as many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.