Citizen Lawyer Class of 2024: B. Perry Morrison, Jr.
B. Perry Morrison, Jr. grew up in Wilson and returned home to practice law in 1989. He started the Morrison Law Firm in 2004 and practices in the area of disability law and as a mediator.
He has long had a passionate interest in history. Morrison served under five governors on the N.C. Historical Commission from 1993-2021, taking a three-year hiatus before being called back to complete another unexpired term by Governor Cooper. He has twice served as chair of North Carolina’s National Register Advisory Committee to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
Morrison has been a guest lecturer at Barton College in military history and in 2009 designed, organized and led a trip for the college to Europe based on the book, Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose. The trip was so successful that Barton hired him as the director of its Travel Program, and he has been organizing and leading trips for Barton ever since. He has been to Europe twenty-four times related to his work as the Director of Barton Travel, and there are many more trips currently scheduled.
For the last fifteen years he has been the President of the Wilson County Historical Association, and twelve years ago conceived, created, and secured funding for his community’s Historical Marker Program. To date, seventeen historical markers have been erected. He has been long active in his church, the Local Kiwanis Club, and the Society of the Cincinnati.
Perry is married to Nancy and has two grown children, Perry and St. Clair.