Cecelia G. Morris was appointed Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York in July 2000. Prior to her appointment, she served as Clerk of Court for the Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York from December 1988. Judge Morris also served as Clerk of Court for the Bankruptcy Court in the Middle District of Georgia from February 1986 until moving to New York.

Before her career with the court, Judge Morris had a private law practice in Macon, Georgia from May 1981 until February 1986. She served as an Assistant District Attorney, as the Administrator of the Civil Division Child Support Recover Unit, Griffin Judicial Circuit in Griffin, Georgia from September 1979 until May 1981.

Judge Morris also had a private law practice in Griffin Georgia from October 1977 until January 1978 and served as a law clerk at Seay Sims & Park (now Bolton & Park) in Griffin, Georgia in 1976.

Judge Morris has participated as a trainer in many Mediation/Arbitration programs sponsored by the Federal Judicial Center; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; the National Association of Security Dealer Regulation and Bankruptcy Court; Endispute Inc. and the Center for Public Resources, Inc. She has successfully mediated many disputes in some of the most prominent cases pending before the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Judge Morris is an active participant in many bar outreach programs and has been honored to be the keynote speaker at several events; including the Federal Judicial Center's Clerk of Court and Chief Deputies Conference and Weil Gotshal and Manges' "Women@Weil."

Judge Morris received a B.S. from West Texas State University in 1968 and a J.D. from John Marshall Law School in 1977.