Deena K. Fisher, a board member since 2006, currently serves as past president of the Oklahoma Historical Society. Fisher is a dean/professor emeritus at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. She holds a doctorate in higher education administration from Oklahoma State University, and two masters’ in social science education and school counseling from Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
In 2006, she graduated from the Institute for Management and Leadership in Higher Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Fisher is an member of the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators and serves as a mentor, coach, and guest lecturer.
She coauthored Woodward (Past and Present) (Arcadia Publishing, 2021) and The 1947 Woodward Tornado Acadia Publishing plus an Oklahoma history textbook, Oklahoma: Land of Contrasts (Clairmont Press, 2006), writing all the teacher’s materials.
Among her many recognitions, she was inducted into the Journal Record’s Woman of the Year Circle of Excellence (2012) and received the Light of Rotary District Award in 2014–15. Currently, she serves as Rotary Past 5750 District Governor. Fisher is a former board member and proud graduate of Leadership Oklahoma Class XXIV. In addition, she was named Woodward Citizen of the Year in 2009.
Fisher has served on several boards of civic organizations and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Hope Center Food and Resources Complex, Plains Indian and Pioneer Museum, and Friends of Fort Supply. She also proudly serves on the boards of the Oklahoma Educators Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma African American Educators Hall of Fame. Fisher was selected to serve on the Friends of OETA Board of Directors in 2023. After serving for nine years on the Oklahoma Center For Non Profits, she presently serves on the EPAC and Visions committees.
She is married to Tom, a retired educator and administrator. They have four children and five grandchildren.
