Monte Fisher's Salient Dates
- 1955
- Born in San Diego CA
- 1958
- Moved to El Cajon CA
- 1969
- Moved to Hawthorne CA
- 1971
- Attended summer session at Phillips Academy in Andover MA
- 1971-72
- Attended Northfield Mount Herman School in MA
- 1972
- Father died
- 1972-73
- Attended and graduated from The Hinckley School in ME
- 1973-75
- Attended New College in Sarasota FL
- 1975-77
- Took hiatus from college, sold stereo and bought the Alfa, worked as a security guard at NC, tried parachuting, did summer mountaineering course of the National Outdoor Leadership School in WY, worked for NC professor's small business filling vending machines, attended UC Santa Cruz for a week (presumed I could use mother's living in CA to get in-state tuition but they said no, and I couldn't afford out-of-state tuition), ended up in Houston TX, worked in parts department of car dealership, sold the Alfa, worked making ice cream at shop called Udder Delight until caught and lost half of left middle finger in the ice cream machine
- 1977-78
- Attended and graduated from New College, received BA
- 1978
- Summer job at Monsanto in St Louis MO
- 1978-83
- Attended University of Texas at Austin, graduate school in chemistry under Prof. J.K. Whitesell, did some caving in the 'twixt and 'tween (e.g.) (during which figured out new way to lace shoes and boots), synthesized Udoteatrial (the background graphic on this page), met Julie Luke (the most wonderful person in the world), finished dissertation and received PhD
- 1983
- Summer job at the Food & Drug Administration in Rockville MD, married Julie
- 1983
- Started at Columbia Law School in NYC, acquired Psychokitty (lived in Columbia-owned building at 112th & Broadway (up the street from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and across the street from Tom's, the exterior of which is shown as the coffee shop in Seinfeld) -- click here to see it in the opening shot from the Daredevil movie)
- 1984
- Summer job at FDA
- 1985
- Summer job at Pennie & Edmonds in NYC
- 1986
- Graduated from law school and received JD, summer job at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in NYC and DC (split the summer with a month of bar-exam-studying and -taking), took NY bar exam
- 1986-87
- Clerked for the Hon. Daniel M. Friedman on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, admitted to NY bar
- 1987
- Started work at Skadden Arps in DC, admitted to DC bar
- 1988
- Julie gave birth to our son, Tobias D. Lukefisher (named for Tobia Frankel, my best friend in law school who died in 1987)
- 1990
- Left Skadden to start work at the National Science Foundation, Office of Inspector General
- 2003
- Celebrated 20th wedding anniversary, Mother died
- 2017-01-20
- Retired from NSF
