Attended Monticello public schools. Graduated H.S. 1965 and S.U.N.Y at Buffalo in 1969. Law school J.D. Hastings of the Law (now U.C. San Francisco School of Law). Managing Editor of the Hastings Law Journal. Awarded Order of the Coif. Law Clerk to Judge Herbert Choy, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, stationed in Honolulu, where Morris took up surfing.  

Career work as a Deputy Attorney General for the California Department of Justice. 

An avid golfer, Morris twice won the President’s Cup championship tournaments  at the Presidio Golf Club in San Francisco. While living in Marin County he served on the Town of Fairfax Planning  Commission. After retirement Morris relocated to a ranch north of Vacaville, California. Survivors are wife, Joan, and sister Rae Eckholm, daughters Monica (husband Matt) Levine and Rebecca (husband Samuel) Elliott, and grandchildren Poppy and Flora and Alma.