Candidate for
Mayor; City of San Bernardino

In 2005, after contemplating the history and potential future of the City San Bernardino, where he and his family have made their home for over 40 years, Pat Morris decided to retire as a judge and run for Mayor to bring strong, ethical, and visionary leadership to his hometown. Campaigning on a platform of aggressive crime fighting, economic revitalization, and accountable governance, Morris was swept into office by an overwhelming majority of voters in February 2006. Since his election, Mayor Morris has worked tirelessly to deliver on his campaign promises by:

• Funding an additional 40 new police officers to patrol city streets;

• Working with the county, schools, state, and private sector to create one of the most comprehensive anti-crime collaborations called Operation Phoenix;

• Driving down crime in San Bernardino to its lowest rate in over two decades, with murders down 45%, auto thefts down 32%, assaults down 18%, and robberies down 15%;

• Bringing over 3,500 new jobs to the city's airport and logistics centers;

• Commencing construction on over $1½ billion in infrastructure projects such as freeway improvements, new rail and public transit projects, and new airport facilities for the city;

• Working with county and state officials to bring a new $350 million county government center and $325 million state courthouse to downtown San Bernardino; and

• Conducting the city's most comprehensive top-to-bottom audit to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of city government, and hiring the first City Manager in city history.

For the next five years, Morris served as Presiding Judge of the Juvenile Courts. As presiding judge, he established the San Bernardino County Children's Network - a comprehensive interagency networking system to coordinate and enhance services to high-risk children. In July 1991, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges awarded to Morris its highest award for Meritorious Service to the Juvenile Courts of America.

In 1990, Morris returned to the criminal courts and soon thereafter he established one of California's first drug treatment court programs. Since then, Morris has advocated statewide, nationwide and internationally for treatment alternatives for non-violent addicts in the criminal justice system. Morris has twice been invited to the White House to discuss the issue of Drug Courts, and he has presented the Drug Court program to international conferences at the United Nations, and in Ireland, England and Italy. Building on the success of the Drug Courts, in 1999, Morris established one of the nation's first Mental Health Courts to treat the seriously mentally ill caught in the Criminal Justice System.

Mayor Morris was born in San Diego and grew up in Needles, California. He is a graduate of the University of Redlands, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and Stanford University School of Law. Pat has been married to his wife Sally for almost 50 years, and their two children and four grandchildren all live, work, and attend school in the City of San Bernardino.

For more biographical information on Mayor Pat Morris please visit www.mayormorris.com