Doris F. Fisher

Fisher was born in San Francisco, California,^[2] to Harvard lawyer and California state legislator B. Joseph Feigenbaum and Dorothy (Bamberger) Feigenbaum of New York, both Jewish.^[3][4][5] She had two siblings: Ann F. Rossi and Joseph L. Feigenbaum.^[5]

Fisher co-founded the Gap with her husband Don Fisher in 1969, which eventually became a $16 billion business with more than 3,500 stores worldwide.^[6] Fisher was the company’s merchandiser until 2003 and sat on the board until 2009.^[1]

She has been named as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women by Forbes Magazine.^[7] She has been a trustee of Stanford University, her alma mater.^[8]

In 2019, it was revealed that Fisher, together with her sons Robert, William, and John, had donated nearly $9 million to Americans for Job Security, a non-profit group that opposed Barack Obama in the 2012 election.^[9]

Fisher was married to Don Fisher in 1953.^[10][11] Their three sons – Robert, William, and John – continue to manage the business.^[1][11] She and her husband were inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2011, as the sixth class.^[12]

Fisher loaned the art collection she and her husband spent their lives acquiring, which consists of 1,100 works by 185 artists, including Wayne Thiebaud, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, and Richard Serra, to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,^[13][14] which, because of her support, is now the largest modern art museum in the United States.^[1]