Nick Fish

Nicholas "Nick" Fish (born September 1958) is an elected official in Portland, Oregon.

Fish grew up in the small rural Hudson River town of Millbrook, New York. The Fish family has a long legacy of public service. His father, Hamilton Fish IV, represented New York in the United States Congress, and was a champion for civil rights. His grandfather, Hamilton Fish III, represented New York in the United States House of Representatives, and served in 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment known as the “Harlem Hellfighters.”

After graduating from Harvard University in 1981, Fish worked as a legislative aide for Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank. He received a law degree from Northeastern University in 1986.

Fish spent ten years representing health care workers and unions in New York City. He was appointed to Manhattan Community Board Five, a neighborhood association, serving as chair for two years.

Fish championed the renovation of the Times Square Hotel, then a run-down blight in a neighborhood. Working with community non-profit Common Ground, the hotel was remodeled into affordable housing and a thriving community of theater district workers, residents living with HIV/AIDS, and formerly homeless individuals. The Times Square renovation received the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence in 1997.

Fish moved to Portland, Oregon in 1996 after his wife, Patricia Schechter, was offered a teaching position in the History Department at Portland State University. Schechter is the author of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 (2000), Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary: Four Transnational Lives (2011), and Remembering the Power of Words (2011) with former Oregon State Senator Avel Gordly.

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