Gary Fischer

After a grief gig in Alaska (thanks in part to Karn Brick) I followed Mark Jansa, Paul Strohfus, Bill Mulvey and Joe McConville to Creighton where, by some miracle, I graduated in 1975. I took a year off to travel and returned to law school, again following Jansa and Strohfus at Creighton, and graduated in 79.

I married and had three children and worked initially for the Legal Aid Society in Omaha. In 1993 I was divorced and, about the same time, I left legal services work to form a nonprofit civil rights organization (now the Fair Housing Center of Nebraska and Iowa), which I directed until I changed hats to become the general counsel for the parent nonprofit (now Family Housing Advisory Services).

In 2003 I married Kate Mahern, also an attorney and Director of the Creighton Legal Clinic at Creighton’s Law School. Together we have five children - four handsome boys/men and one beautiful daughter. As you might imagine, all geniuses. We both retired full-time in the summer of 2020.

Currently we have 4 grandchildren we love to spend time with and we enjoy travel, political and social justice work, and hanging with good friends and family.