Former New York City Council Member Kenneth K. Fisher is a partner at the law firm of Cozen O'Connor, where he concentrates his practice on the civic fabric of New York City.

Ken served in the New York City Council 1991-2001, representing the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Greenpoint, Williamsburg, downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, and Boerum Hill. He was described by various newspapers as "one of the most talented members of the City Council, effective, hardworking, an original thinker, and progressive." A survey by the New York Daily News ranked him one of the five most effective members of the Council. During his tenure, he chaired a Land Use Subcommittee of the Council, overseeing the approval of hundreds of millions of dollars of public works as well as the designations of historic districts and individual landmarks, and the Committees on Ethic and Youth Services.

Ken spearheaded the Council's hard hitting investigation and hearings on violence, corruption and waste at the Fulton Fish Market, and was the chief sponsor of the legislation to regulate the Market, the City's other wholesale food markets and the private garbage carting industry. He also conceived and secured funding for the City's Childhood Asthma Initiative, which has been credited with cutting the hospitalization rate for children with asthma by a third.

One singular honor received by Ken was a Certificate of Commendation from the New York City Police Department for his personal effort and bravery in diffusing a tense racial confrontation in Williamsburg over an eighteen hour period in October 1993. The certificate is the Police Department's highest civilian award, and was presented by Police Commissioner Bratton at a ceremony at Police Headquarters. Ken also received awards from the Historic Districts Council, the Landmarks Conservancy, American Lung Association and more than thirty other civic and neighborhood organizations.

Ken's articles on various aspects of public policy have been published in the New York Times, Crain's New York Business, New York Newsday, the New York Daily News, and the New York Law Journal. Ken has taught at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs, New York University, and has lectured at other colleges. He serves as chair of the New York City Chapter of the League of Conservation Voters; a member of the board of the Historic House Trust; a fellow of the Institute for Urban Design; and chair of the board of directors of the Governors Island Alliance, a coalition working to redevelop historic Governors Island. Ken is chair of the Land Use, Zoning & Planning Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a member of the Brooklyn Bar Association and the New York Bar Association, for which he served two terms in the House of Delegates and co-chaired its Special Committee on Medical Information.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Ken graduated from Raymond College at the University of the Pacific, and the Syracuse University College of Law. Ken is the father of two children. He and his wife live in Brooklyn Heights. http://www.facebook.com/KennethKFisher