Education
At a young age, he was adopted by George and Dorothea Morrison who lived in Northport, Long Island. As a child, he attended public schools and graduated from Northport High School in 1962.
Morrison attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and graduated in three years in 1965 with a degree in chemistry.
He received a master's degree in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1970. At Illinois, he founded the Graduate Student Association as an advocacy organization for the over 8000 graduate students on campus. He was elected and re-elected as the first Chairman of the group. In 1970, he worked as a Special Assistant to the Dean of Students.
Morrison received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973. Among his classmates were future President Bill Clinton, future First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, future Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton, future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and future U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal. While at Yale Law School, he worked for Greater Boston Legal Services, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and New Haven Legal Assistance Association.
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