Social Workers and Court Workshop

Social workers in a wide range of areas are called to testify in court cases.  Would you know what to do if you had to testify in court? Are you prepared? Would you know what to say? What not to say? Going to court for the first time is always a learning experience. You rarely have a second chance to make a first impression. Here is your opportunity to get it right the first time. Learn from social worker Jud Morris, MSW '71, who has experience from several court appearances.

Jud Morris has been involved in social work services for over fifty years and has a master’s of social work from the University of Michigan (’71). He has been a welfare worker in Chicago; a school social worker in Detroit; a crisis intervention outreach worker in Fresno; a community mental health clinic director in Hermiston, OR; a child protective services supervisor in South Carolina; a grant-writer & contract monitor in Spokane; a fundraiser in Tacoma, and Key Peninsula Family Resource Center (KPFRC) community director. Currently, he is president of the Greater Gig Harbor Foundation and the Key Peninsula Business Association. He is also member of community organization boards, including the Peninsula Schools Education Foundation, the Key Free Clinic, and Key Peninsula Healthy Community.

With his wife, Lynne Clemmons Morris, MSW ’69, Ph.D. ’76, they have established a School of Social Work student scholarship. They have also made many conference presentations, gamed simulations, and co-authored several articles and monographs on rural social work practice.  

Morris has lived in Washington for over thirty years and has worked for Children’s Home Society of Washington since 2001 and has been Key Peninsula Family Resource Center community director since 2006.

As KPFRC community director, Morris is responsible for supervising and at times providing services. He is also responsible for continuity of community services, quality improvement, community relations, and grants & fundraising. In 2015, because of KPFRC’s outstanding services, he was awarded Citizen of the Year by Key Peninsula Lions’ Club, and in 2016 the Citizen of the Year/Paul Harris Fellowship by Rotary Club of Gig Harbor and Peninsula School District’s Hugh McMillan Community Partnership Award.

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