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.
Term: 2/13- 2/14
Chair:
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Betty Layne DesPortes, JD
Benjamin & DesPortes, PC
PO Box 2464
Richmond, VA 23218
(804) 788-4444
bldesportes@aol.com
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Criminalistics
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Chair:
Jennifer S. Mihalovich, MPH
Oakland Police Department
Criminalistics Division
455 7th Street, Room 608
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 238-3386
jsmihalovich@oaklandnet.com |
Secretary:
Lawrence Quarino, PhD
Cedar Crest College
Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences
100 College Drive
Allentown, PA 18104
(610) 606-4666
laquarin@cedarcrest.edu
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Digital & Multimedia Sciences
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Chair:
Douglas S. Lacey, BS
DL Technology LLC
4 Averil Court
Fredericksburg, VA 22406
(540) 850-9689
dltech@cox.net |
Secretary:
Rhesa G. Gilliland, MS
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
National Forensic Laboratory
22433 Randolph Drive
Dulles, VA 20104-1000
(703) 406-7150
rggilliland@uspis.gov
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Engineering Sciences
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Chair:
James Millette, PhD
MVA Scientific Consultants
3300 Breckinridge Boulevard, Suite 400
Duluth, GA 30096
(770) 662-8509
jmillette@mvainc.com
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Secretary:
Carol A. Erikson, MSPH
Trillium, Inc.
356 Farragut Crossing Drive
Knoxville, TN 37934
(865) 966-8880
cerikson@trilliuminc.com |
General
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Chair:
Alan F. Boehm, MFS
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite II-705
Arlington, VA 22230
(703) 292-4889
aboehm@nsf.gov
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Secretary:
Claire E. Shepard, MS
Lucky13 CSI Consultants
401 South Oak Street
Oak Ridge, LA 71264
(404) 966-3051
claire_e_shepard@yahoo.com |
Jurisprudence
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Chair:
Andrew Sulner, JD
Forensic Document
Examinations, LLC
220 East 57th Street, Suite 200
New York, NY 10022
(212) 888-8181
andysulner@aol.com
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Secretary:
Christine Funk, JD
Department of Forensic Sciences
401 E Street SW
Washington, DC 20024
(202) 727-7830
christine.funk@dc.gov
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Odontology
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Chair:
Paula C. Brumit, DDS
PO Box 608
Nocona, TX 76255
(214) 244-7008
lovtx@aol.com |
Secretary:
Iain A. Pretty, DDS, PhD
Dental Health Unit
Williams House, Lloyd Street N
Manchester Science Park
Manchester
M15 6SE
UNITED KINGDOM
+44-161-226-1211
iain.pretty@manchester.ac.uk
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Pathology/Biology
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Chair:
Amy C. Gruszecki, DO
American Forensics, LLC
PO Box 550846
Dallas, TX 75355
(214) 221-2700
drg@usaforensics.com
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Secretary:
JC Upshaw Downs, MD
GBI Medical Examiner
925 A Mohawk Drive
Savannah, GA 31419
(912) 921-5903
jamie.downs@gbi.ga.gov |
Physical Anthropology
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Chair:
Ann H. Ross, PhD
North Carolina State University
Sociology & Anthropology
Campus Box 8107
Raleigh, NC 27695-8107
(919) 515-9021
ann_ross@ncsu.edu
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Secretary:
Phoebe R. Stubblefield, PhD
University of North Dakota
Department of Anthropology
236 Centennial Drive Stop 8374
Grand Forks, ND 58202
(701) 777-4870
phoebe.stubblefield@email.und.edu |
Psychiatry & Behavioral Science
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Chair:
Manuel Lopez-Leon, MD
169 East 74th Street
Garden
New York, NY 10021
(212) 260-1439
drlopezleon@mac.com
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Secretary:
Christopher R. Thompson, MD
10850 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 470-7064
chthompson@mednet.ucla.edu |
Questioned Documents
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Chair:
Thomas W. Vastrick, BS
522 S Hunt Club Boulevard
Suite 217
Apopka, FL 32703
(407) 234-3219
vastrick@yahoo.com |
Secretary:
Pamela Zilly, BS
State Patrol Crime Lab
1233 Arapahoe Street
Lincoln, NE 68502-4538
(402) 471-8950
pam.zilly@nebraska.gov
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Toxicology
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Chair:
Loralie J. Langman, PhD
Mayo Clinic
Hilton 730
200 1st Street, SW
Rochester, MN 55905
(507) 284-8408 |
Secretary:
Dwain C. Fuller, BS
VA N TX Health Care System
Toxicology-B113
4500 S Lancaster Road
Dallas, TX 75216
(214) 857-0690
dwain.fuller@va.gov |
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