Steven R. Fox was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on December 16, 1968. Mr. Fox grew up in Traverse City, and graduated from the Traverse City Senior High School in 1987. He attended Northwestern Michigan College between 1987-1988. In 1991, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, and attended the University of Detroit School of Law where he received his J.D. in 1994. After practicing law in southeast Michigan and Grand Rapids during and after law school, Mr. Fox returned to Traverse City in 1999 to work with Bishop & Heintz PC.

He is a member of the American Bar Association, including real property and health law sections, the State Bar of Michigan, including sections on health care, real property and business, and the Grand Traverse-Leelanau-Antrim Bar Association. His practice emphases includes extensive real estate and business experience, including land use planning and litigation, real estate transactions and litigation, business entity formation and litigation, construction law, zoning and municipal law, water and riparian rights, condominium law, preservation and conservation easements, and special land use and planned unit development administrative processes and appeals. Mr. Fox also has significant experience and success in the following areas: ERISA litigation, health care law, divorce and domestic relations. Mr. Fox was prevailing counsel in a significant reported decision upholding the rights of married parents to raise their children free from interference by alleged putative fathers. Numerick v Krull, 265 Mich App 232, 694 NW 2d 552 (2005), leave denied, 474 Mich 877, 704 NW 2d 76 (2005).

Mr. Fox has contributed to the local community as a volunteer for the Third Level legal aid clinic, the GTLA Bar Association law day, as a charter member of the Sunrise Rotary Club, as a volunteer for the Traverse City Area Public Schools and the Eastern Parent Teacher Organization. He has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Michigan Historic Preservation Network since 2003. As a board member of MHPN, he has assisted in the establishment and organization of the historic preservation easement program administered by MHPN, which has accepted several significant historic preservation easements across the State of Michigan, including a multi-million dollar historic preservation easement donation for the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, Michigan.