Richard Morrison has practiced law in Arizona since 1978, with emphasis on water law and environmental law. Additionally, he has garnered valuable business experience through his family’s agribusiness holdings. He served as CEO of the Arizona Dairy Co., LLP during a time of transition following his father’s death, and he is currently the Managing Member of Morrison Brothers Windmill Ranch, LLC, a beef cattle breeding operation situated in Yavapai and Coconino counties. In academe, Mr. Morrison has been a university trustee of three graduate schools, fundraiser, administrator, and faculty member. At present, Mr. Morrison is serving as a newly elected trustee of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, and as a member of the External Advisory Board to the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona. His service to the broader agricultural industry is chiefly through the Farm Foundation, in Chicago, Illinois, as to which he is a trustee. Mr. Morrison has a strong commitment to community service, evidenced in part by his having been awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree by the University of Arizona in 2011 and Arizona State University’s Distinguished Achievement Award (College of Arts and Sciences) in 1989. He has been appointed and elected to numerous commissions and boards in Arizona, is a decorated veteran (U.S. Navy fighter pilot), and is also an ordained priest of The Episcopal Church. (He served as the Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Flagstaff, Arizona from 2003-2005.)