Donald Morison (1857 – April 24, 1924) was a lawyer, judge and politician in the Colony of Newfoundland.
[1] The son of William D. Morison and Bessie Whithall, he was born in St. John's and was educated at the General Protestant Academy there.
He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the assembly as a co-leader of the United Opposition Party but was subsequently elected in a 1906 by-election.
[1] Morrison convinced the cabinet to pass the Law Society Act, which allowed women to become lawyers, in 1911 after his niece Janet Morison Miller was not allowed to write her examinations by the law society.
Miller moved to Scotland before she was able to take the examination but Louise Saunders later became the first woman called to the Newfoundland bar.