Frederick Morris

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| office = President of the High Court

| term_start = 1 July 1998

| term_end = 24 April 2001

| nominator = Government of Ireland

| appointer = Mary McAleese

| predecessor = Declan Costello

| successor = Joseph Finnegan

| office1 = Judge of the High Court

| term_start1 = 1 August 1990

| term_end1 = 24 April 2001

| nominator1 = Government of Ireland

| appointer1 = Mary Robinson

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1929|12|1|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kilkenny, Ireland

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| nationality = Irish

| party = Fianna Fáil

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| alma_mater = {{Ubl|University College Dublin|King's Inns}}

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Frederick Reginald Morris (born 1 December 1929{{cite journal |title=Morris, Hon. Frederick Reginald, (born 1 Dec. 1929), President of the High Court, Republic of Ireland, 1998–2001 |journal=Who's Who |date=1 December 2007 |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U28167}}) is a retired Irish judge who served as President of the High Court from 1998 to 2001 and a Judge of the High Court from 1990 to 2001.{{cite web | url=http://www.supremecourt.ie/SupremeCourt/sclibrary3.nsf/pagecurrent/ABF35041A7FAD2EA8025741800403A20?opendocument&l=en | title=Former Judges of the Supreme Court | publisher=The Supreme Court of Ireland | accessdate=26 October 2020 | archive-date=24 November 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124141720/http://www.supremecourt.ie/supremecourt/sclibrary3.nsf/pagecurrent/ABF35041A7FAD2EA8025741800403A20?opendocument&l=en | url-status=live }}

Born in Kilkenny in 1929, he was called to the bar in 1959 and became a Senior Counsel in 1973.{{cite news |title=Frederick Morris nominated to be next President of the High Court |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/frederick-morris-nominated-to-be-next-president-of-the-high-court-1.139246 |access-date=6 April 2021 |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=20 December 1997 |language=en}} He was made a High Court judge in 1990 and appointed to the Special Criminal Court the following year.{{Cite web |url=http://www.faduda.net/tribunal/morris06.html |title=Gerard Cunningham |access-date=2012-07-15 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221160811/http://www.faduda.net/tribunal/morris06.html |archive-date=2013-02-21 |url-status=dead }} He was President of the High Court from 1998 to 2001, and therefore an ex-officio member of the Supreme Court of Ireland. He was the Chairperson of the Referendum Commission in 2002 for the 25th Amendment Bill 2002.{{cite web |title=Report of RefCom on Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy Referendum |url=https://www.refcom.ie/previous-referendums/protection-of-human-life/Report-of-RefCom-on-Protection-of-Human-Life-in-Pregnancy-Referendum.pdf |accessdate=29 June 2019 |archive-date=29 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529145617/https://www.refcom.ie/previous-referendums/protection-of-human-life/Report-of-RefCom-on-Protection-of-Human-Life-in-Pregnancy-Referendum.pdf |url-status=live }}

From 2002 to 2008, he was the chairman and Sole Member of the Morris Tribunal, which investigated allegations of corrupt and dishonest policing in County Donegal.{{Cite web |url=http://www.morristribunal.ie/ |title=Morris Tribunal |access-date=22 September 2021 |archive-date=17 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717023540/http://www.morristribunal.ie/ |url-status=live }}