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The Authors
 
Keith Inman
holds a B.S. and M. Crim., both from the University of California
at Berkeley. He is a fellow of the American Board of Criminalistics. In his
professional career he has been employed as a criminalist by the Orange County
Sheriff’s Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the Los
Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner, and the Oakland Police
Department. He was in private practice for 6 years at Forensic Science Services
of California, Inc., a private crime laboratory that undertook both prosecution
and defense work. Mr. Inman is currently employed as a senior criminalist by
the California Department of Justice DNA Laboratory. He has coauthored 
 
An
Introduction to Forensic DNA Analysis
, a book that has become the preeminent
reference for both attorneys and crime laboratories. He has taught in the Crim-
inal Justice Administration Department at California State University, Hayward,
and currently teaches a variety of general forensic science and forensic DNA
courses for the University of California at Berkeley Extension and online.
 
Norah Rudin
holds a B.A. from Pomona College and a Ph.D. from Brandeis
University. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Criminalistics. After
completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, she
worked for 3 years as a full-time consultant for the California Department
of Justice DNA Laboratory and has also served as consulting technical leader
for the DNA programs at the Idaho Department of Law Enforcement DNA
Laboratory, the San Francisco Crime Laboratory, and the San Diego County
Sheriff ’s Department. Dr. Rudin divides her time among consulting, writing,
and teaching about forensic DNA and forensic science as well as more general
topics in biology. Dr. Rudin has co-authored 
 
An Introduction to DNA Forensic
Analysis
, a book that has become the preeminent reference for both attorneys
and crime laboratories. She is also the author of the 
 
Dictionary of Modern
Biology
, Barron’s Educational, 1997. Dr. Rudin teaches a variety of general
forensic and forensic DNA courses for the University of California at Berkeley
Extension and online. She is active as a consultant and expert witness in
forensic DNA for both prosecution and defense.
Please visit the 
 
Forensic Education and Consulting
Web page at