Ryan Fisher
Ryan M. Fisher is a seasoned attorney with over a decade of experience advising senior military commanders on the nation’s most consequential military operations. He is an expert in public international law and the law of armed conflict, with over twenty years of academic and professional experience on U.S.-China and U.S.-Taiwan Relations.
He graduated from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University in 2013 and earned his undergraduate degrees in Economics and Chinese at BYU in 2009. Prior to law school Ryan studied and worked in Nanjing, China, where he studied international law at Nanjing University and worked as a research assistant for a Chinese firm that was later acquired by Dentons. Ryan is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Upon graduating from law school, Ryan was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. Throughout his career, he has served as a trial litigator and managing prosecutor in over 50 felony courts-martial at Air Force installations worldwide, as an international law attorney for global military operations, and as a professor of national security law at the US Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. Ryan’s has presented on U.S.-China Relations and national security law at Georgetown University Law Center and the Ministry of National Defense in Taipei, Taiwan. He continues his service as a JAG in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Ryan comes to Tom Petrus & Miller with extensive courtroom experience, strategic litigation skills, and is committed to serve the firm’s clients with excellence in all litigation matters. He is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association and is admitted to practice before all state courts in the State of Hawaii, the U.S. District Court in the District of Hawaii, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Ryan and his wife are the proud parents of four sons.
