Residence: Point Breeze

Age: 63

Family: Wife, Penny; four adult children, Steven, Elizabeth, Michael and Katherine

Education: Bachelor’s of arts, Hunter College, 1967; master’s of arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969; master’s of library science, Queens College, 1973; doctorate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977

Occupation: Assistant director for lawyer services at the Duquesne University School of Law

Background: Fishman served as the head law librarian at the Allegheny County Law Library from 1977 to 1999. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Constitutional Review Commission, created to determine if a new constitutional convention should be called to address issues affecting the state Constitution. He serves as co-director of a Pennsylvania Constitution website for Duquesne’s Center for Legal Information and Allegheny County Law Library.

Noteworthy: Fishman has been appointed president of the Western Pennsylvania Law Library Association for 2010-11.

Quote: “I really like helping people find things in the law, from lawyers and judges to people walking in off the street.”

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