2025-26 Nominating Committee Report

Source: Kimberly Wrasse, Assistant Director

The Nominating Committee has announced its list of nominees for 2026-27 officers:

James L. Caruso, MD
(Pathology/Biology)

President

Sarah Kerrigan, PhD
(Toxicology)

President-Elect 

Marcus Rogers, PhD
(Digital & Multimedia Sciences

Vice President

Linton Mohammed, PhD
(Questioned Documents)

Treasurer   

Matthew Wood, PhD
(Criminalistics)

Secretary   

The Nominating Committee is composed of three immediate past presidents — Christopher Thompson (Chair), C. Ken Williams, and Laura Fulginiti — and the immediate past section chairs:  Debra Zinni (Anthropology), Sheree Hughes (Criminalistics), Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar (Digital & Multimedia Sciences), Sarah Hainsworth (Engineering & Applied Sciences), Joyce Williams (Forensic Nursing Science), Brian Janysek (General), Terry-Dawn Hewitt (Jurisprudence), Robin Ainsworth (Odontology), Owen Middleton (Pathology/Biology), Sebastien Prat (Psychiatry & Behavioral Science), James Green (Questioned Documents), and Diane Moore (Toxicology).

In accordance with AAFS Bylaws, a nomination for any elected office of the Academy may be made by petition delivered to the Nominating Committee in care of the AAFS headquarters no later than September 1. Nomination petitions should state the name of the nominee, the office sought, a certificate stating that the candidate is a Fellow in good standing, and the signatures and printed names of 50 Fellows and full Members. Nominations for any elective office may be made from the floor during the Academy's Annual Business Meeting, February 11, 2026, in New Orleans, LA.

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