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Martin W. Morris, Adjunct Instructor of Hart Leadership Program and Sanford School of Public Policy  

Email Address: martin.morris@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    J.D., Samford University, 1981
    A.B., Duke University, 1978

    Highlight:

    Marty Morris grew up in Anderson Indiana.  He attended Duke University on a football scholarship where he majored in Economics earning an AB in 1978.  Marty then attended Cumberland School of Law and earned a JD in 1981, he is licensed to practice law in Indiana and Washington DC.

    Morris practiced law in Indianapolis in the early 1980s while maintaining a strong interest and involvement  in Indiana politics.  Marty managed US Senator Richard Lugar's  successful campaigns in  1988, 1994, 2000 and 2006.  He has advised hundreds of campaigns over the years.  He served as Lugar's Chief of Staff in Washington, DC from February 1990 to January 2013.  Morris was the Dean of Senate Chiefs when he retired.

    Marty enjoyed a small business experience when he was the midwest General Manager of Indiana Tee's in the late 1980s before Lugar ask him to run his political operations.

    As Lugar's Chief of Staff, Morris oversaw all Lugar operations: the DC and 5 Indiana personal offices, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Lugar was Chair or Ranking Republican and the Senate Agriculture Committee when Lugar was Chair or Ranking Republican.

    Two of the most important pieces of legislation Morris worked on were the Nunn/Lugar bill, which among other things deactivated thousands of old Soviet warheads formally aimed at the United States and The Freedom to Farm bill which drastically moved  Agriculture away from New Deal subsidies toward free market planting. 

    Morris presently serves on the Board of The Lugar Center as an outside Director.  TLC is involved in research on weapons of mass destruction as well as issue involving genetically modified food.  Recently The Lugar Center has received significant grants to expand into studying how to bring about more bipartisan cooperation in Congress.

    Marty is married to Pam Maloley Morris and they have one child Al Morris who graduated from Duke in '13.

    Marty’s serious hobby is investing.  His fun hobbies are: golf, running, baseball coaching and research and everything Duke.  Morris also belongs to many service clubs. 

    Martin W. Morris