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 also taught as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and Howard University Law School and served as a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society and as the first president of the newly reconstituted District of Columbia Jewish Community Center.