Timothy Morrison

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Timothy Morrison

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Timothy Morrison was born in Troy, Ohio on February 1, 1949. In 1955, his family relocated to Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Morrison graduated from New Haven High School before attending Indiana University. He received an A.B. in Political Science in 1971, and a J.D. from the Indiana University, Bloomington School of Law in 1974. Morrison was a commissioned officer in the military intelligence branch of the U.S. Army and served in the U.S. Army Reserve for five years.

From 1975-1981, Morrison served as chief deputy prosecutor in the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office, and from 1981-1988 he was a supervising attorney in the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office. In 1988, Morrison began a 23-year career at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Indianapolis. During his time as a federal prosecutor, Morrison served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana and was interim leader of the office on three separate occasions. Morrison litigated violent crime, firearms, public corruption, white collar, and national security cases.

Upon his retirement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2011, Morrison become an adjunct professor at Indiana University’s Department of Criminal Justice, and in 2013 became a distinguished and valued adjunct faculty member at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. An instrumental part of Maurer’s criminal law program, Morrison taught classes in criminal law and criminal procedure. He also helped to spearhead the Bradley Fellows Program and to oversee the Bradley externship program.

Timothy Morrison died on January 6, 2023.

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Maurer Alumni, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, United States Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, Prosecutor, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure

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Criminal Law | Criminal Procedure | Law | Legal Biography | Legal Education | Legal Profession

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