Judge C. Cloud Morgan

Macon- Judge C. Cloud Morgan, Sr. died Sunday, March 15, 2009. Services will be held at 3:00PM Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at Hart's at the Cupola, Peake Road, with Dr. Robert Setzer officiating. Burial will be private at Rose Hill Cemetery. The family requests that visitation only occur following the service at Hart's at the Cupola.

Judge Morgan was born in Kentucky in 1917. He had been a resident of Bibb County since September 1937, when he entered the freshman class at Mercer University. In January 1938, he was appointed Student Director of the Mercer University radio extension program on radio station WMAZ and in September of that year, he was employed as a fulltime radio announcer by WMAZ, a position he held until he enlisted in the United States Navy in 1941. The station arranged his hours of work so that he could continue to attend classes at Mercer and he graduated with his class of 1941 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In September of 1941, he entered the freshman class at Mercer's School of Law.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Morgan enlisted in the United States Naval Reserves and was assigned to duty as Navy liaison in the Army Aircraft Warning Center in Charleston, SC. In August 1942, he was commissioned as Ensign in the United States Naval reserved and assigned to duty as the Security Officer of the Executive Office of the Secretary of Navy in Washington, DC. In March of 1943, he was ordered to report to the Commander of the Southwest Pacific Service Forces, who was then located in Sidney, Australia. From there he was assigned to a United States Navy small ship repair base at Cairns, Australia, where he met his future wife, Joyce. They were married in August 1944. In December 1944, he was ordered to join the staff of the Commander of the Seventh Fleet as a public information officer. He was in several combat operations, including the invasion of Luzon in the Philippine Islands. In August 1945 he was ordered back to the United States for reassignment. He was allowed to return via Australia and bring his wife back with him and they landed in San Francisco in September 1945. By then, the war was over and he received his discharge.

In January 1946 Judge Morgan re-entered Mercer Law School and graduated cum laude in June 1948 with an LLB degree. While still a student in 1947 he passed the Georgia Bar and opened an office for the private practice of law in the old First National Bank building. He was also elected in April 1947 as President of the Mercer Student Body. He continued to practice law in Macon for nineteen years.

In 1953 he was elected City Attorney by the Mayor and Council of the City of Macon, which was then a part-time position and he served in this capacity for six years. In 1954 he served as Bibb County Chairman of the March of Dimes Campaign. In 1966, Judge Morgan won election as a Superior Court Judge of the Macon Judicial Circuit, a position he held until he retired in 1990 and received a lifetime appointment as a Senior Superior Court Judge of Georgia. In 1974 he was appointed by Governor Jimmy Carter to serve as Chairman of the Courts section of the Georgia Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. In 1993 Judge Morgan received the Meritorious Service Award from the Mercer University of Walter F. George School of Law. Judge Morgan was a member and former President of the Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia and was a former member of the Judicial Council of Georgia. He was a member of the Macon Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, and a former member of the American Bar Association.

In the late 1950's Judge Morgan served as an assistant coach for the Ocmulgee Little League baseball teams and he also served in many capacities with the Boy Scouts of America. In 1931, he became a Lone Scout in Rowletts, Kentucky. He was a former Troop Committee member of Troop 24 and Troop 3 of Macon, a Vigil member and former lay Adviser of the Echeconnee Lodge of the Order of the Arrow, Scoutmaster of Troop 3, member of the Executive Board of the Central Georgia Council of the Boy Scouts, and received the Silver Beaver Award from the Central Georgia Council in 1969. In 2003 he was named an honorary member of the Eagle Scout Class of 2002 of the Central Georgia Council.

Judge Morgan was a member of the Kappa Sigma Social Fraternity, Blue Key Honor Fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity where he served as Justice of the chapter and two terms as an officer of the fraternity's national organization. He also served two terms as a Trustee of Mercer University and had been a member of the President's Council. He was a member and inactive deacon of the First Baptist Church in Macon and a former member, deacon, Sunday School teacher, Superintendent of the Adult Department of the Sunday School and President to the Men's Brotherhood of the Tattnall Square Baptist Church. He was also a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Exchange Club of Macon.

Survivors include his wife, Joyce, his son, C. Cloud Morgan, Jr. of Macon and two grandchildren.

Hart's Mortuary and Crematory at the Cupola has charge of arrangements. Click here to view hi-res photos of floral tributes.