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Fish was born to Roy Lee Fish and the former Alice Simpson in Walker Creek in Lafayette (pronounced LE FAY IT) County in southwestern [[Arkansas]]. He  began public school education in Texarkana, Arkansas while his father worked there for the railroad at Union Station. Roy Lee Fish earned $90 per month (nearly 1,800 in 2020 dollars) but still managed to buy the family's home and a used Overland automobile. When the stock market crashed in October 1929 and the [[Great Depression]] began, the family moved back to the Walker Creek community and became sharecroppers. In this capacity Fish became a prolific picker of [[cotton]]. Despite the economic hard times, the Fish family prospered. <ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=roy-morris-fish&pid=196747856|title=Roy Morris Fish (1922-2020) obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=September 5, 2020}}</ref>

Fish was born to Roy Lee Fish and the former Alice Simpson in Walker Creek in Lafayette (pronounced LE FAY IT) County in southwestern [[Arkansas]]. He  began public school education in Texarkana, Arkansas while his father worked there for the railroad at Union Station. Roy Lee Fish earned $90 per month (nearly 1,800 in 2020 dollars) but still managed to buy the family's home and a used Overland automobile. When the stock market crashed in October 1929 and the [[Great Depression]] began, the family moved back to the Walker Creek community and became sharecroppers. In this capacity Fish became a prolific picker of [[cotton]]. Despite the economic hard times, the Fish family prospered. <ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=roy-morris-fish&pid=196747856|title=Roy Morris Fish (1922-2020) obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=September 5, 2020}}</ref>

After high school, Roy attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, and in October 1941, shortly before the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]], he enlisted in the [[United States Coast Guard]]. He was discharged when the war ended and enrolled in law school at [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], from which he graduated in 1949. Roy worked for forty years in his law office in Springhill. Part of the time he was in practice with [[Charles McConnell]], a former Springhill mayor and [[Jack Montgomery (Louisiana politician)|Jack Montgomery]], a former one-term Democratic state senator.<ref name=nlh/> After he retired from his law practice, Fish was named president of the former Springhill Bank and Trust Company, a position that he filled for five years.<ref name=obit/>

After high school, Roy attended Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, and in October 1941, shortly before the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]], he enlisted in the [[United States Coast Guard]]. He was discharged when the war ended and enrolled in law school at [[Louisiana State University]] in the capital city of [[Baton Rouge]], from which he graduated in 1949. Roy worked for forty years in his law office in Springhill. Part of the time he was in practice with [[Charles McConnell]], a former Springhill mayor and [[Jack Montgomery (Louisiana politician)|Jack Montgomery]], a former one-term Democratic state senator.<ref name=nlh/> After he retired from his law practice, Fish was named president of the former Springhill Bank and Trust Company, a position that he filled for five years.<ref name=obit/> In 1998, SBTC became part of Regions Bank.

Fish was the city attorney for Springhill. In the summer of 1972, he was an unsuccessful candidate in a nonpartisan race to be the District 10 delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, which met throughout 1973. Fish polled 1,746 votes (30.9 percent), but victory went to state Representative [[R. Harmon Drew, Sr.]], who topped the three-candidate field with 3,194 votes (56.5 percent). In third place with 714 votes (12.6 percent) was the independent [[journalist]] Eddy Arnold, then of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]]. <ref>''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' August 21, 1972, p. 1.</ref>' He was active in the Louisiana Bar Association, from which he received in 1985 the President's Award for the most valuable service to the association According to his obituary, Fish was one of the last of the "old school" lawyers who could handle a wide range of cases.<ref name=obit/>  

Fish was the city attorney for Springhill. In the summer of 1972, he was an unsuccessful candidate in a nonpartisan race to be the District 10 delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, which met throughout 1973. Fish polled 1,746 votes (30.9 percent), but victory went to state Representative [[R. Harmon Drew, Sr.]], who topped the three-candidate field with 3,194 votes (56.5 percent). In third place with 714 votes (12.6 percent) was the independent [[journalist]] Eddy Arnold, then of [[Minden, Louisiana|Minden]]. <ref>''[[Minden Press-Herald]],'' August 21, 1972, p. 1.</ref>' He was active in the Louisiana Bar Association, from which he received in 1985 the President's Award for the most valuable service to the association According to his obituary, Fish was one of the last of the "old school" lawyers who could handle a wide range of cases.<ref name=obit/>