[1] During her childhood, the family relocated to five different towns in Greene and Faulkner counties when her father took a job as a school superintendent.
[1] She married George Fisher in 1959, and started her career working for the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company.
In 1980 she ran for state treasurer when Nancy Hall, the first woman ever elected as a statewide constitutional officer in Arkansas, retired after serving 18 years.
In 1987 she served as Vice President for the Southern Region of the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers.
In 1995 she was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, and was later appointed to the Rural Telephone Commission by President Bill Clinton.
This came at a time where Huckabee was very vulnerable on that issue due to public frustration about poor education funding for rural schools.
Other highlights of her campaign included: ethics accountability, prescription drug relief for seniors, Economic Growth and raising the minimum wage, crime, (during a time when Huckabee was being slammed due to questionable pardons, including one that left two women dead in Missouri), and fiscal responsibility.
[4] Polling showed the race slowly narrowing, but Fisher was unable to cut into Huckabee's lead enough to win.
Huckabee was also helped by the positive political wave for Republicans that swept through nation that year, though it did little to save incumbent U.S.