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词条 Pat Morris (politician)
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Judge  Mayor 

  3. References

  4. External links

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Patrick Joseph "Pat" Morris (born January 1938)[1] is an American politician. He was the Mayor of San Bernardino, California from 2006 to 2014, and is a member of the Democratic Party.

Early life

Morris was born and grew up in Needles, California, along the Colorado River, where his father worked for the railroad. He graduated at cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of Kappa Sigma Sigma at the University of Redlands.[2] He received his law degree from Stanford Law School and was admitted to the California State Bar on June 5, 1963.[3]

Career

He served in the Army Reserve for three years.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} For three years{{When|date=March 2011}} he served as a San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney.[2] He left the District Attorney's Office to enter private practice law, primarily family law.[2] During his time in private practice, Morris served on the San Bernardino City Unified School District's Board of Education. He helped found the San Bernardino Boys and Girls Club.[4]

Judge

California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Morris to the San Bernardino County Superior Court in 1976. For three years, he served as San Bernardino County's first full-time Family Law Supervising Judge and organized the court's first Family Law Department. From 1981 to 1984, he served as the Superior Court Presiding Judge. During this time, Morris was named Inland Southern California's Trial Judge of the Year for his outstanding contributions to the administration of justice.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}

For the next five years, Morris served as Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Court. As Presiding Judge, he established the San Bernardino County Children's Network - a comprehensive interagency networking system to coordinate and enhance services to high-risk children. In July 1991, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges awarded Morris its highest award for Meritorious Service to the Juvenile Courts of America.{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}}

In 1990, Morris returned to the criminal courts and soon thereafter he established one of California's first drug treatment court programs. Since then, Morris has advocated statewide, nationwide and internationally for treatment alternatives for non-violent addicts in the criminal justice system. Morris has twice been invited to the White House to discuss the issue of Drug Courts, and he has presented the Drug Court program to international conferences at the United Nations, and in Ireland, England and Italy. Following the model of the Drug Courts, in 1999, Morris established one of the nation's first Mental health courts to treat the seriously mentally ill caught in the criminal justice system.[2]

Mayor

In 2005, he took leave from the San Bernardino Superior Court to run for mayor of San Bernardino. He won the initial election in November 2005, but not by the required majority. On February 7, 2006, Morris won the mayoral run-off election against City Attorney James "Jim" Frank Penman by 64% of the vote.[5] Morris was sworn in on March 7, 2006 as mayor. He appointed his son, Jim Morris, to be his chief of staff. The position is unpaid because San Bernardino's Charter prohibits nepotism.

In July 2012, with a city budget deficit of at least $45 million and headed towards chapter 9 bankruptcy after a city council vote, Major Pat Morris stated "It is a dark day for the city."[6]

References

1. ^{{cite news|last= Hagen|first= Ryan|date= January 3, 2014|title= Outgoing mayor sees ‘incredible’ future for San Bernardino|url=http://www.sbsun.com/government-and-politics/20140301/outgoing-mayor-sees-incredible-future-for-san-bernardino|newspaper=San Bernardino Sun|access-date=January 12, 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/depts/mayor/mayors_biography.asp |title=Mayor's Biography |publisher=Ci.san-bernardino.ca.us |date= |accessdate=2011-12-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112085030/http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/depts/mayor/mayors_biography.asp |archivedate=November 12, 2011 }}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/34312 |title=State Bar of California membership records |publisher=Members.calbar.ca.gov |date= |accessdate=2011-12-10}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.campaignsitebuilder.com/templates/displayfiles/tmpl26.asp?SiteID=789&PageID=10763&Trial=false |title=Bernardino Boys and Girls Club |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2011-12-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929145002/http://www.campaignsitebuilder.com/templates/displayfiles/tmpl26.asp?SiteID=789&PageID=10763&Trial=false |archivedate=September 29, 2011 }}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.campaignsitebuilder.com/templates/displayfiles/tmpl26.asp?Trial=false&SiteID=789&PageID=10795 |title=Morris wins the mayoral run-off election |publisher= |date= |accessdate=2011-12-10 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325215635/http://www.campaignsitebuilder.com/templates/displayfiles/tmpl26.asp?Trial=false |archivedate=March 25, 2015 }}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.pe.com/local-news/politics/politics-headlines-index/20120711-s.b.-bankruptcy-new-officials-discovered-money-mess.ece |title=S.B. BANKRUPTCY: New officials discovered money mess |publisher= Riverside Press Enterprise |date= 2012-07-11 |accessdate=2012-07-19}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120314063650/http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/depts/mayor/homepage.asp Mayor Morris - Official City Website]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20160110151636/http://mayormorris.com/ Mayor Morris Re-Election Campaign Website]
  • Mayor Morris fiscal recovery plan
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9 : 1938 births|Living people|California Democrats|Mayors of San Bernardino, California|People from Needles, California|Politicians from San Diego|Stanford Law School alumni|University of Redlands alumni|Military personnel from California

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