Susan Fisher
A Leader Who Listens

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Photo Album

With Senator Barack Obama, June 2008.


With Senator Hillary Clinton, April 2008.


With Jim Hightower at a Common Cause event.


At the French Broad Electric Co-op receiving a donation from the NC Association of Electric Cooperatives Rural Electric Action Program.


Introducing President Bill Clinton in Asheville, April 2008.


Representative Fisher and former president Bill Clinton meet and talk at an event in March of 2008.


Left: Representative Fisher and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg meet and talk at an event in Asheville, October 2007. Right: Representative Fisher speaks at a reception in her honor sponsored by Equality NC, August 2007.


Representative Fisher was named Chair of the K-12 Education Subcommittee in February, 2007. Above, she receives the gavel from Speaker Joe Hackney as she is named Chair. Rep. Fisher also served on the honorary Escort Committee at Speaker Hackney's swearing in, one of only 6 of the 120 House members chosen by the new speaker for this honor.


Left: Rep. Fisher with Kathleen Balogh, President of the League of Women Voters of Buncombe County and League member Karl Quisenberry at the League of Women Voters Holiday Party, December 2006. Right: Rep. Fisher discusses environmental issues with League members Kitty Boniske and Peggy Tinkler.



Top: Susan, John, and family members gather at the West Asheville Library on Election Day, 2006. Bottom: Volunteers make Get Out the Vote calls on Election Day.


Above: Going door-to-door in the Hillcrest neighborhood with Heath Shuler, Brownie and Tess Newman, Reverend L. C. Ray, Mayor Terry Bellamy, Isaac Coleman, and volunteers, talking with voters (and Kids Voting voters!), October, 2006.

Above: Susan talks with West Asheville constituents at the West End Bakery, September, 2006.

With Heath Shuler, candidate for US Congress, at UNCA, October, 2006.


Above left: With former Senator John Edwards at at a rally for Heath Shuler, A-B Tech, October, 2006. Above, right: Congressman Mel Watt, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, with Fisher campaign star volunteer Brenda Martin and Mrs. Watt at the YMI Cultural Center. Lower left: Susan with Congressman Watt and campaign supporter Fredia Brown.


UNCA outreach event, October, 2006. Top left: with members of the Shuler campaign team. Top right: Susan with her daughter Alex, a freshman at UNCA. Lower left: students register to vote. Lower right: with Kyle Cogburn of the Young Democrats.


On the Air with Dr. Errington Thompson, host of "Where is the Outrage" on 880AM and author of "A Letter to America."


With UNCA Chancellor Anne Ponder (L) and with other elected officials (R) at Chancellor Ponder's Installation, UNCA September, 2006.


With supporters in Weaverville (left) at the home of Kathy and Dick Sinclair; talking with constituents at a Chamber of Commerce candidates forum (right).




Visiting with supporters in West Asheville (top) at the home of Cat Matlock and Jeff Schmidt; listening to concerns from Weaverville constituents about overdevelopment of slopes and ridgetops at the home of Paul and Claudine Cremer (bottom).


Breakfast at the D & D restaurant in Barnardsville: with Myles Compton (left) and talking with constituents (right).

With Officer Lanning of the NC Police Benevolent Association, receiving an endorsement contribution.

Susan at the North Asheville Tailgate Market, September, 2004.


Signing in volunteers at the Asheville-Buncombe Crop Walk, October, 2006


Above left: Susan with Van Duncan, Candidate for Buncombe County Sheriff, at the Woodfin Community Center. Above right: with volunteer Emily Clevenger.



Left: presenting a certificate of appreciation to J.D. Howell, October 2006. Right: at a groundbreaking ceremony at the Swannanoa 4-H Camp.


Above: May, 2006 Cinco de Mayo Campaign Kickoff. Top left: Buncombe County Commissioner David Gantt with Leigh Young and Commissioner David Young; top right: NC Senator Steve Metcalf, Donna Metcalf, and Judge Patricia Young with her daughter; lower left: Clerk of Court Bob Christy and supporters Hank and Kim Teich; lower right: Mariachis serenade the crowd.


Above, left: Susan with Martin Nesbitt and Bob Christy the at 2004 Cinco de Mayo campaign kickoff at Homewood. Above, right: "Good Democrats" at the 2004 kickoff.


Filing for candidacy at the Buncombe County Board of Elections in 2004. Left: Susan with her mother, Penny Carscaddon, her daughter, Alex Fisher, and Buncombe County Democratic Party Chair Max Haner. Right: talking with Lynette Sills after filing.



Above, left: with Patsy Keever, 2004. Above, right: Susan and Joe Sam Queen at the MAHEC Health Summit, 2006.


Above, left: In Washington DC for a Peace Rally, September, 2005. Above, right: Deployment of a local National Guard Unit.


Susan at Kids Voting Day (at left: with Dr. Logan, superintendent of Asheville City Schools, and Jonathan Glover, Kids Voting Board Member; at right: the Haw Creek Elementary School Square Dance Team). Susan was director of Kids Voting in Buncombe County for three years.


John, Susan (top), Jonathon, Alex (bottom) John and Susan Jonathan Fisher, Duke University Junior Alex Fisher (center) and friends, at Asheville High School dance

The Fisher family: John, Susan, Jonathan, and Alex; John and Susan; son Jonathan, now 21 and graduating from Duke University; daughter Alex (center) and friends at an Asheville High School dance.


Susan, John, and some of their classmates from the Asheville High School class of 1973, the first fully-integrated class at AHS (9th-12th grades).


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