Judge Robert Morris

Appellate Judge

Judge Morris attended St. Andrews, the International School of the Bahamas, and then Tarpon Springs (FL) High School from which he graduated in 1971. Thereafter he received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida in 1975. In 1980 he was conferred the Juris Doctor by DePaul University and became a member of the Florida Bar.

From 1980 to 1997 he was engaged in the practice of law. His experience as a lawyer includes being a prosecutor, a partner in a national law firm, and the principal of his own law firm. He also served on the boards of directors of a bank and a hospital. Martindale Hubbell, Inc. rated him an AV lawyer.

In 1997 he was appointed judge of the Pinellas County Court and then, in 2001, judge of the Circuit Court for the Sixth Judicial Circuit (Pinellas/Pasco). The judges of the Sixth Judicial Circuit elected him chief judge in 2007. He was re-elected chief judge in 2009 and served in that capacity until his appointment to the Second District Court of Appeal later that same year.

He was born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1953 and is from a family of eight children. Married in 1976 to his high school classmate, they have three adult children.