Patrick F. Fischer
Patrick F. Fischer is a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. He was first elected in 2016 and re-elected in 2022.
Early life and education
Fischer was born in 1957. He is a 1976 graduate of St. [Xavier High School (Cincinnati)|St. Xavier High School] and received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University.Career
Fischer's legal career began as a clerk for Judge William Bertelsman. Afterwards he joined the law firm of Keating Muething & Klekamp, where he became a partner after four years and continued to work until becoming a judge.Fischer served as the president of the Cincinnati Bar Association for 2006 and 2007, and also made an unsuccessful bid for Cincinnati City Council in 2007. In 2010 he joined the Ohio First District Court of Appeals and was reelected in 2012. He then served as president of the Ohio [State Bar Association] for the 2012–2013 term.
Fischer was appointed by Chief Justice Thomas Moyer of the Supreme Court of Ohio to serve as co-chair of a task force seeking to improve Ohio's judicial system. He was also on the Ohio Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism. He has also served on the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission as vice-chair of the commission's committee on the judicial branch.