EW #2482 CDE , is a professional handwriting & document examiner whose forensic and personnel consulting firm, Pentec, Inc., in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, advises individual, legal and corporate clients in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Ruth is a Certified Document Examiner by the National Association of Document Examiners and Board Certified by the American College of Forensic Examiners. She is court qualified as an expert witness in Federal, State and local courts.
Founder and past president of the Great Lakes Association of Handwriting Examiners, sheis a popular speaker, media guest, writer, jury & trial consultant and forgery expert. She worked as the document examiner in the kidnapping/murder case of Dr. Iverson in Michigan and responds to media inquiries on the JonBenet Ramsey case.
Ruth, who lived eleven years in Brussels, Belgium and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, has appeared on CBS News, CNBC, Court TV, Sally and Dateline/NBC with handwriting and personnel assessment. At the request
of George magazine, she prepared the profiles on the 1996 presidential candidates. She is a member of the International Womens Forum and is a life member of NAWBO.
In 1996-97, Ruth served as a trial consultant for the defense team of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and appeared in Canada in a BBC documentary about these trials. As seen in Time and reported recently in Newsweek
and USA Today, this spring she will work again as a jury consultant for Dr. Kevorkian in his landmark Right to Die case.
Ruth E. Homes, Professional Background:
Certified handwriting Examiner
Certified Document Examiner (NADE)
Board Certified Document Examiner (ABFE)
Oakland Community College, Instructor 1985-90
Trial and Jury Consultant
Training in Handwriting Examination & Identification:
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Association of Forensic Document Examiners
American Board of Forensic Examiners
American College of Forensic Examiners
International Graphonomics Society
National Association of Document Examiners
National Bureau of Document Examiners, New York City
Forensic Document Examination, Andrew Bradley, Denver
Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation, Avinoam Sapir, Phoenix
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Larry Ziegler, Diplomate ABFDE
LaTrobe University of Australia, Brian Found, Forensic Research Scientist
Professional Associations:
American Board of Forensic Examiners (ABFE) - Diplomate
American College of Forensic Examiners - Life Fellow
American handwriting Analysts Foundation (AHAF)
American Association of Handwriting Analysts (AAHA)
Great Lakes Association of Handwriting Examiners (GLAHE) - President 1984-1990
National Association of Document Examiners (NADE)
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
National Bureau of Document Examiners, Professional Member '86-96
Education & Experience:
Colby College, Waterville, ME, Bachelor of Arts, 1967
African-American Institute 1969-72, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Brussels, Belgium 1972-79
Business:
Pentec, Inc., Founded in 1983
EW #2482 graduated in May of 2002 with a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Psychology from Boston University. She has combined her interest in handwriting examination with her fascination in neuropsychology through her research entitled A Neuropsychological Investigation into the Validity of Handwriting Analysis.
Sarah is a professional handwriting & document examiner whose forensic and personnel consulting firm, Pentec, Inc., advises individual, legal and corporate clients in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Sarah is court qualified as an expert witness in Wayne County, Michigan and is a member of the National Association of Document Examiners. Current president of the Great Lakes Association of Handwriting Examiners, she is a popular speaker and jury consultant.
Sheworks frequently for the Office of the Oakland County Prosecutor, human resource departments and attorneys nationwide.She served as a trial consultant for the defense team of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. She has been reported in Newsweek, Hour Magazine and in local papers in the Detroit area.
This fall Sarah will open an office of Pentec, Inc. in the Boston area to continue her work with personnel selection and document examination. She also plans to continue her research that she hopes will help validate the field of handwriting analysis by exploring the neurocognitive and clinical correlates of graphology and by enhancing our understanding of how graphic motor expression reflects individual personality and cognitive functioning.
Education
Boston University, Boston, MA, Master of Arts, Psychology, 2002* Colby College, Waterville, ME, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, 1997
Harvard Summer School, Cambridge MA, 1995
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, Associates Degree in Liberal Arts, 1995
Training in Handwriting and Document Examination
Forensic Document Examination Course, Kathy Koppenhaver - TX
Insyte Challenge Course, June Canoles - CA - 2000
Training Course in Forensic Document Examination, Andrew Bradley - CO - 2000
Manhattan Handwriting Consultant/National Society of Graphology
Felix Klein Courses - NY - 2000
Master Class Series, Roger Rubin - NY - 1999 - present
Handwriting and Document Examination Jury and Trial Consulting
Accepted as Expert Witness in Wayne County: Judge Milton Mack, Probate Court, Detroit, MI 1/29/01
Professional Associations
American Association of Handwriting Analysts
Great Lakes Association of Handwriting Examiners
President, Jan. 2000 - present
National Society of Graphology
Continuing Education/Conferences Attended
American Association of Handwriting Analysts IL-97, MI-99, Toronto-02
American College of Forensic Examiners and The American Psychotherapy Association FL-98
American Society of Professional Graphologists NY-99
Great Lakes Association of Handwriting Examiners MI-97, 98, 00, 01, 02
Insyte Challenge CA-98
International Graphological Colloquium Montreal-98
National Association of Document Examiners - FL-99, NM-00, UK-01, MI-02
National Society of Graphology NY-98, 99, 00
The Vanguard Conference CA-97, 98, 00
