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: 2/12- 2/13

Chair:

John E. Gerns, MFS

PSC 2
Box 7922
APO, AE 09012
+49-630-387-0988
john.gerns@ogn.af.mil

Criminalistics

Chair:

Ken Williams, MS, JD

New Jersey State Police
North Regional Laboratory
1755 State Highway 46
Little Falls, NJ 07424
(973) 256-7790
lppwillc@gw.njsp.org

Secretary:

Jennifer S. Mihalovich, MPH

Oakland Police Department
Criminalistics Division
455 7th Street, Room 608
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 238-3386
jsmihalovich@oaklandnet.com

Digital & Multimedia Sciences

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

Engineering Sciences

Chair:

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

Secretary:

James Millette, PhD

MVA Scientific Consultants
3300 Breckinridge Boulevard, Suite 400
Duluth, GA 30096
(770) 662-8509
jmillette@mvainc.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) 977-7845
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:

Paul Messner, JD

980 Dry Ridge Mount Zion Road
Dry Ridge, KY 41035-7672
(859) 903-9368
firecycle@insightbb.com

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:

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

Pathology/Biology

Chair:

J. Keith Pinckard, MD, PhD

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

Secretary:

Amy C. Gruszecki, DO

American Forensics, LLC
PO Box 550846
Dallas, TX 75355
(214) 221-2700
drg@usaforensics.com

Physical Anthropology

Chair:

William R. Belcher, PhD

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

Secretary:

Ann H. Ross, PhD

North Carolina State University
Sociology & Anthropology
Campus Box 8107
Raleigh, NC 27695-8107
(919) 515-9021
ann_ross@ncsu.edu

Psychiatry & Behavioral Science

Chair:

Manuel Lopez-Leon, MD

169 East 74th Street
Garden
New York, NY 10021
(212) 260-1439
drlopezleon@mac.com

Secretary:

Christopher R. Thompson, MD

10850 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 470-7064
chthompson@mednet.ucla.edu

Questioned Documents

Chair:

Thomas W. Vastrick, BS

380 South State Road 434, Suite 1004-132
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714-3866
(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

Toxicology

Chair:

Ruth E. Winecker, PhD

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

Secretary:

Loralie J. Langman, PhD

Mayo Clinic
Hilton 730
200 1st Street, SW
Rochester, MN 55905
(507) 284-8408
langman.loralie@mayo.edu

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