Membership Committee

The Membership Committee is composed of AAFS Section Officers — a Chair and Secretary from all eleven sections with the rank of Fellow. Terms of office shall be for one year beginning at the conclusion of the Academy's annual meeting. The primary responsibility of processing membership and promotion applications in the Academy rests with each Section Chair and Secretary.

Membership Committee - Term: 2/11- 2/12

 

Membership Committee Chair

Victor W. Weedn, MD, JD

Maryland State
Office of the Medical Examiner
111 Penn Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 333-8840
weednv@ocmemd.org

 

Criminalistics

Chair:

Barbara E. Llewellyn, PhD

574 Babcock Avenue
Elmhurst, IL  60126
(847) 204-1859
barb4n6@sbcglobal.net

 

Secretary:

Ken Williams, MS, JD

New Jersey State Police
Forensic Science & Tech Center
1200 Negron Drive
Hamilton, NJ 08691
(609) 584-5054
lppwillc@gw.njsp.org

Digital & Multimedia Sciences

Chair:

David W. Baker, MFS

7515 Colshire Drive
Mailstop T240
McLean, VA 22102
(703) 983-3658
bakerd@mitre.org

 

Secretary:

Douglas S. Lacey, BS

DL Technology LLC
4 Averil Court
Fredericksburg, VA  22406
(540) 850-9689
dltech@cox.net

Engineering Sciences

Chair:

Anastasia Micheals, MS

Forensic Materials Consulting
1784 Sanchez Street
San Francisco, CA 94131-2741
(408) 646-4959
anastasia@forensicmaterials.com

 

Secretary:

Kurt D. Weiss, MS

Automotive Safety Research
5350 Hollister Avenue, Suite D
Santa Barbara, CA  93111-2326
(805) 964-1110
kurt.weiss@asr-engineering.com

General

Chair:

Julie A. Howe, MBA

Saint Louis University
Division of Forensic Pathology
1402 South Grand Boulevard, R512
St. Louis, MO 63104-1028
(314) 977-7830
howej@slu.edu

Secretary:

Alan F. Boehm, MFS

Recovery Accountability & Transparency Board
1717 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, 700
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 254-7903
aboehm@cox.net

 

Jurisprudence

Chair:

Joseph J. Maltese, JD

New York Supreme Court
130 Stuyvesant Place, 3rd Floor
Staten Island, NY  10301
(718) 675-7860
jmaltese@nycourts.gov

Secretary:

Andrew Sulner, JD

Forensic Document Examinations, LLC
220 East 57th Street, Suite 200
New York, NY 10022
(212) 888-8181
andysulner@aol.com

 

Odontology

Chair:

Richard A. Weems, DMD

University of Alabama
School of Dentistry
SDB Box 39
1530 3rd Avenue, S
Birmingham, AL 35294-0007
(205) 934-1186
rweems@uab.edu

 

Secretary:

Paula C. Brumit, DDS

PO Box 608
Nocona, TX 76255
(214) 244-7008
lovtx@aol.com

Pathology/Biology

Chair:

Jeffery K. Tomberlin, PhD

Department of Entomology
TAMU 2475
College Station, TX 77843-2475
(979) 845-9718
jktomberlin@ag.tamu.edu

Secretary:

J. Keith Pinckard, MD, PhD

Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences
5230 Medical Center Drive
Dallas, TX  75235
(214) 920-5941
kpinckard@dallascounty.org

 

Physical Anthropology

Chair:

Susan M.T. Myster, PhD

Hamline University
MB 196
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN  55104
(651) 523-2554
smyster@gw.hamline.edu

Secretary:

William R. Belcher, PhD

Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
Central Identification Lab
310 Worchester Avenue, Building 45
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI 96853-5530
(808) 448-1729
wbelcher@msn.com

 

Psychiatry & Behavioral Science

Chair:

John L. Young, MD

203 Maple Street
New Haven, CT 06511-4048
(203) 623-5623
jlmyoung@pol.net

 

Secretary:

Manuel Lopez-Leon, MD

276 5th Avenue, Suite 307-A
New York, NY 10001
(212) 260-1439
drlopezleon@mac.com

Questioned Documents

Chair:

Carl R. McClary, BA

2600 Century Parkway, Suite 410
Atlanta, GA 30345
(404) 417-2706
carl.mcclary@atf.gov

Secretary:

Pamela Zilly, BS

State Patrol Crime Lab
1233 Arapahoe
Lincoln, NE 68502-4538
(402) 471-8950
pam.zilly@nebraska.gov

 

Toxicology

Chair:

Philip M. Kemp, PhD

Bioaeronautical Research Lab
FAA, CAMI Bldg
6500 South MacArthur Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK 73169-6901
(405) 954-6262
philip.kemp@faa.gov

 

Secretary:

Ruth E. Winecker, PhD

Office Chief Medical Examiner
Campus Box 7580
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-7580
(919) 445-4428
ruth.winecker@dhhs.nc.gov
 

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