Professor Fisher received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Macalester College, her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, and an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law. In the 1980's, she practiced constitutional civil rights law concentrating primarily on police misconduct and First Amendment litigation in federal district court and the Seventh Circuit.  She also taught legal writing at Northwestern Law School. Subsequently, she was an assistant professor of law at The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, teaching Professional Responsibility, Remedies, Trial Practice, Gender & the Law, and the Family Law Clinic, before coming to Seton Hall in 1995.  

Professor Fisher has published in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties, professional responsibility, jurisprudence and public interest litigation.  She is actively involved in the clinical section of the Association of American Law Schools and the New Jersey State Bar Association Consumer Protection Committee. At Seton Hall, Professor Fisher was the Director of the Center for Social Justice from 1995 to 2006. She has also served as Chair of AARP-NJ's Predatory Lending Task Force and as a consultant to the American Association of University Professors.

Professor Fisher’s primary professional emphasis is on litigating civil rights and consumer cases on behalf of low-income urban residents who are typically underserved by the legal profession.  Beyond litigating cases, she seeks to integrate broader advocacy efforts into her practice and engages in legislative and policy advocacy on behalf of consumer groups as well. To that end, Professors Fisher, Jeffries and Barbosa have recently created an Urban Revitalization Project to develop coherent strategies addressing the linked urban problems of inadequate housing and education.

At Seton Hall, Professor Fisher teaches Civil Procedure and a section of the Civil Litigation Clinic. She has also taught a Fair Housing Clinic, Professional Responsibility and Gender and the Law.