Tom Morris Jr.

Tom Morris Jr. is an American television host and producer. He was a producer on America's Most Wanted (AMW) for three years, then became an on-air correspondent on the show through 2011. In 2016, he was hired as one of the original co-hosts of Live PD, which became the most successful show in A&E's history. Early life Morris is the son of Dr. Eleanor Morris of Burgess, Virginia and the late Rev. T. Wright Morris. He graduated from Northumberland High School, in Heathsville, Virginia, in 1975. He earned his bachelor's degree in mass communications from Norfolk State University. Career Morris' first job in television came while he was still in college, as an intern news writer in Norfolk, Virginia. After college, he worked as a courier with the White House press corps, and worked his way up to cameraman. Morris left the press corps in the 1980s and took a job as an economic development specialist with Prince George's County in Maryland. In 1987, he joined the U.S. State Department's newly formed antiterrorism Embassy Task Group. He was assigned to Mogadishu, Somalia.