ed morrison, officer

Born in Seattle, Ed received his B.A. in Literature from Wheaton College, IL and his M.Div. from Columbia Seminary in Decatur, GA. After a year of training in pastoral care at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, he served as the Presbyterian Campus Minister at Ole Miss in Oxford for five years. Ed left the ministry in 1976 and served as the Executive Director of the Youth Crisis Center, a shelter for adolescents in Jackson, MS, for the next ten years. He married a Mississippian, and after bringing her for a visit “home” in August, she easily convinced him to return to the northwest in 1986. 

Ed and Carol worked as counselors with adolescent “underachievers” for three years before starting their private practice as Morrison Counseling in Bellevue. They moved from Redmond to North Bend in 2000 and retired in 2016, the same year they began their involvement with what is now Reclaim. Ed’s connection with the unhoused and Reclaim deepened when he became close friends with an unhoused man and helped him through his final years of declining health. He feels honored to be serving on Reclaim’s board.  

Ed has been an avid fly fisher for over sixty years but spends more time now enjoying the view from his home on the South Fork Snoqualmie River. He recently finished remodeling the treehouse built for his grandchildren into a writing/meditation space, which has a spectacular view of the river and the Cascades.