Joanne Morris

Joanne Robin Morris OBE is a former New Zealand lawyer and law lecturer.[1] She served as a member of the Waitangi Tribunal for 24 years, from 1989 to 2013.[2][3]

Biography

Morris was a law lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington and was appointed to the Waitangi Tribunal in 1989. During her career she served as chair of the Commission of Inquiry into Pornography, which reported to the government in 1989.[3] In the same year, she was appointed as a foundation member of the Broadcasting Standards Authority and was reappointed a following for a following two terms. In 2003, she was appointed chair of the Broadcasting Standards Authority. She also chaired the Police Appointment Review Committee and was a member of the establishment board of the Legal Services Agency.[4]

In the 1993 New Year Honours, Morris was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for public services.[4][5]

Following her retirement from law, she opened a sewing shop in the suburb of Kilbirnie.[3]

gollark: Replacement screens are something like £20 for my phone on ebay, but I have no idea how to actually install them...
gollark: Fully manual updates which I can happily do in the background, no random bloatware, a sensible terminal...
gollark: My workloads all run on Linux, so I don't have to deal with Windows thankfully.
gollark: iOS is worse, though, in that area.
gollark: Sadly, yes. Android is kind of terrible.

References
  1. Morris, Joanne R. (1 May 1993). "Balancing or juggling our private and public lives? / by Joanne Morris". Victoria University of Wellington law review, May 1993; v.23 n.2:p.49-57; issn:. Retrieved 17 June 2020.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. Allen, Michael (1 June 2013). "An interview with Joanne Morris / by Michael Allen". Manutukutuku (Online), Jun 2013; n.65:p.4-5; issn:. Retrieved 17 June 2020.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. "New Zealand's Women in Power: Where are they now?". Stuff. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  4. Monday; October 2003, 6; Zeal, 3:53 pm Press Release: New; Government. "New Chair for the Broadcasting Standards Authority | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 17 June 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. "No. 53154". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 31 December 1992. p. 30.
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