Journal of Forensic Sciences Announces New Associate Editor, Dr. Doug Elrick

I am delighted to announce that the Journal of Forensic Sciences (JFS) has appointed a new Associate Editor (AE), Doug Elrick, PhD. 

Dr. Doug Elrick is an Instructor at the Des Moines Area Community College, as well as for the University of South Florida-Tampa, and will assume the JFS AE role for Digital Forensics on March 1, 2026. Dr. Elrick is a Member of the JFS Editorial Board and is well qualified to act as the Digital Forensics AE. We are delighted that he has agreed to join the JFS Leadership Team and look forward to his future contributions. This new AE role was created due to the substantial increase in manuscript submissions JFS has experienced over the past few years in the Digital & Multimedia Sciences area.

AEs were incorporated into the JFS process in 2017 and have played an integral role in the evolution of JFS. It is their dedication and effort that make JFS one of the leading forensic science journals in the world. 

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Elrick on his new appointment!  

Thank you for your continued support of JFS and its initiatives. For questions, please contact JFS Managing Editor Brenda Peat at bpeat@aafs.org.