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John Robert Risher Jr. (September 23, 1938 – February 21, 1999) was an attorney who served, from 1976 until June 1978, as the first Corporation Counsel for Washington, D.C. appointed after it was granted Home Rule by the United States Congress. Risher was born in Washington, the grandson of John Temple Risher, who, as chief of the muster roll section of the United States Navy during World War I, recruited the first Black women to serve in the Navy. Wikipedia