Joanne Morris

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

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.

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

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