Oklahoma Bar member Trish Morris, formerly District Counsel at the Jacksonville District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, has been promoted as an Associate Deputy General Counsel with the Army General Counsel's Office (Installations, Environment and Civil Works) at the Pentagon.  Ms. Morris will handle national issues involving Army civil works and the Clean Water Act and Section 404 regulatory programs. 

Ms. Morris graduated from the University Of Oklahoma Law School in 1983, concentrated her practice in oil and gas and public utility litigation for the private bar and Oklahoma Corporation Commission for 10 years and then joined the US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District Office of Counsel, in 1994. She was promoted through the Corps of Engineers' legal community, and became head of the legal office as the Gulf Region Division Counsel in Baghdad, Iraq in 2005-6 and the District Counsel in Jacksonville in 2006-2009. She was named the Corps' Attorney of the Year in 2006. 

Ms. Morris is an Army Reserve JAG officer, who has served on active duty with CENTCOM in Afghanistan (2002-2003) and Iraq (2003-2004).  She was awarded a Combat Action Badge during her service in Afghanistan and a Bronze Star for her service in Iraq.