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Education, Ethics & Terminology
Inter-Agency Working Group

The IWG EET focuses in particular on issues relating to forensic science education, ethics and terminology. Examples of the work the IWG EET may undertake include, but are not limited to:

    • Identify formal degree programs and continuing education programs for forensic science examiners, prosecutors, defenders and judges.
    • Identify accreditation organizations for formal forensic science degree programs.
    • Identify existing sources of funding for scholarships for forensic science degree programs.
    • Identify a code of ethics or professional responsibility that can serve as a uniform code, and recommend a process for implementing and enforcing such a code.
    • Recommend a process for defining and standardizing forensic science terminology used in expert reports and testimony.

Full Charter

 

Leadership:

Co-Chairs:

    • Rob Lesnevich, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
    • Jeffrey H. Comparin, United States Department of Justice

Executive Secretary:

    • Kathryn Suchma, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Membership:

    • Pam Bordner, Oregon State Police Bend Forensic Lab
    • Eric Buel, Vermont State Forensic Laboratory
    • Mark Dale, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory
    • Phyllis Frost, National Institutes of Health
    • Christine Funk, State of Minnesota
    • Robert Gohl, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
    • Scott Hecker, Federal Bureau of Investigation
    • Max Houck, West Virginia University Forensic Science Initiative
    • Robin Hunton, National Forensic Lab
    • Laura Hutchins, United States Secret Service
    • David Love, Drug Enforcement Administration
    • Robert Mann, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command/Cental Identification Laboratory
    • Donal McClamroch, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
    • Stephen Mercer, Forensics Division for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender
    • Carla Moore, Ninth District Court of Appeals, The Supreme Court of Ohio
    • Mitchell Morrissey, 2nd Judicial District Office of the District Attorney
    • Minh Nguyen, National Institute of Justice
    • Donald Orokos, University at Albany
    • M.E. Parson, Defense Cyber Investigations Training Academy (DCITA)
    • Eileen Waninger, Federal Bureau of Investigation