Richard T. Morrison

Richard T. Morrison
Senior Judge of the United States Tax Court
Incumbent
Assumed office
August 28, 2023
Judge of the United States Tax Court
In office
August 29, 2008 – August 28, 2023
Appointed byGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byCarolyn Miller Parr
Succeeded byBenjamin A. Guider III
Personal details
Born (1967-06-10) June 10, 1967 (age 57)
Hutchinson, Kansas, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Kansas (BA, BS)
University of Chicago (JD, MA)

Richard Thane Morrison (born June 10, 1967)[1] is a senior judge of the United States Tax Court.

Born in Kansas, Morrison received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Kansas in 1989 and was a visiting student at Mansfield College, Oxford University from 1987 to 1988. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School, 1993 and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago in 1994. He was a law clerk to Judge Jerry Edwin Smith, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1993 to 1994, and was then an associate with Baker & McKenzie in Chicago until 1996, and with Mayer Brown & Platt, also in Chicago, until 2001.

Morrison then entered government service, working as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Review and Appellate Matters in the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice, from September 2001 to August 2008 (except for term as Acting Assistant Attorney General, from July 2007 to January 2008). Nominated by President George W. Bush as Judge, United States Tax Court, on November 15, 2007, Morrison was confirmed by Senate, July 7, 2008. Following confirmation he was then appointed by President George W. Bush as a Judge of United States Tax Court, on August 28, 2008, for a term ending August 27, 2023.

References

  1. ^ Nominations of Deanna Tanner Okun, Richard T. Morrison, David D. Gustafson, Elizabeth Crewson Paris, Eric M. Thorson, and Edwin Eck: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Second Session, on the Nominations of Deanna Tanner Okun, to be Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President; Richard T. Morrison, David D. Gustafson, and Elizabeth Crewson Paris, to be Judges on the U.S. Tax Court; Eric M. Thorson, to be Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and Edwin Eck, to be a Member of the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, U.S. Department of the Treasury, April 17, 2008. U.S. Government Printing Office. 2008. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-16-081477-8.
Legal offices
Preceded by
Carolyn Miller Parr
 Judge of the United States Tax Court
2008–2023 		Succeeded by

Attribution

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