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Since 2000, Violet L. Fisher has served as Resident Bishop of the New York West Area of The United Methodist Church, the first African-American woman from the Northeastern Jurisdiction to be elected to the episcopacy. Bishop Fisher has received several awards, including The United Methodist Church Denman Evangelism Award. In 1993, she was named Black United Methodist Preacher of the Year for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the UMC.
Within The UMC, Bishop Fisher serves as President of the Northeastern Jurisdiction College of Bishops and is a member of the Commission on Pan-Methodist Cooperation and Union and of Black Methodists for Church Renewal. Currently Vice President of the General Board of Global Ministries, Bishop Fisher sits on the Board's Audit Committee and Hope for the Children of Africa Committee. In addition, she continues her work with the General Board of Discipleship Committee on Older Adult Ministries. Bishop Fisher was the keynote speaker for the International Prayer Conference for Wesleyans in Renewal held in Singapore in June 2004.
In addition, Bishop Fisher served as a short-term missionary to Kenya, Uganda, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. She has a large extended family in the Maryland and Delaware area, including her son, Marcus, and her mother, sisters and brothers.

Bishop Fisher on her first bungee jumping experience off the Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand.