My testimony experience, from 2003 to today, covers multiple forensic disciplines but my main focus is on my most recent experiences during the last twenty-one years in Questioned Document Examination.
09/2003 Anoka County vs. Young; MN; Handwriting
10/2003 State vs. Martin; MN; Handwriting
03/2005 State vs. Cobbins; MN; Handwriting
03/2006 State vs. Ganpat; MN; Handwriting
03/2006 State vs. Forrester; MN; Handwriting
05/2006 State vs. Kreuth; MN; Handwriting
09/2007 Stearns County vs. Hull; MN; Handwriting; Indented Writing Impressions (Frye-Mack Hearing and Jury Trial)
08/2011 Stearns County vs. Sherman; MN; Handwriting
01/2012 Hennepin County vs. Dozier; MN; Handwriting
01/2012 Chicago, IL; State Board of Elections; Handwriting
03/2013 Wright County vs. Rossberg; MN; Handwriting; Indented Writing Impressions; Paper Examinations
05/2013 Hennepin County/State/U.S. vs. Carlson; MN; Handwriting; Indented Impressions
06/2013 U.S. vs. Caela; Kansas; Handwriting (Defense)
06/2013 Washington County vs. Fox; MN; Handwriting (Defense)
04/2015 Johnson vs. DeMarce; N.D.; Handwriting; Indented Impressions
09/2015 Hennepin County vs. Orwig; MN; Handwriting
04/2016 Hill vs. Hill; Washington County, MN; Handwriting
12/2017 Estate of Peter Muscala; Handwriting
04/2018 Rachelle Jacob vs. Joel Mernik; Hennepin County, MN; Handwriting
05/2018 Hedberg Aggregates, Inc. vs. William R. Webber, Western WI, 7th District, Bankruptcy
03/2019 Estate of William Lyons vs. Scott Starfield, Washington County, MN; Handwriting
09/2019 Estate of James Daniel Renneker; Stearns County, MN; Handwriting
11/2019 Brown County vs. Ashanti Sitting Crow, New Ulm, MN; Handwriting (Defense)
01/2020 Egan vs. Egan, Hennepin County, MN; Handwriting
02/2020 Margot Prescott vs. Paul Morrison (Aerlig Capital, LLC); Handwriting; Indented Impressions; Altered Document Examinations
03/2020 Lisa Smit vs. Kyle Lusk, Scott County, MN; Handwriting; Indented Impressions; Altered Document Examinations
06/2021 Richard Saliterman vs. Deborah Larson, Hennepin Co., MN; Handwriting
07/2021 McElligott vs. McElligott, Hennepin Co., MN; Handwriting
07/2021 Brooks vs. Callan, Chicago, IL; Handwriting; Indented Impressions; Altered Document Examinations
08/2021 Deposition – Estate of Shirley Fjerstad, MN 02-PR-20-456 Probate, Handwriting
10/2021 Deposition – Chaska, MN, CASE 0:19-cv-02414-MJD-BRT, Handwriting
12/2021 Esmael vs. Sahid, Dakota Co., MN; Handwriting
02/2022 Hennepin Co., City of Minneapolis vs. Danielle Billops; MN; Handwriting
03/2022 Deposition – Tenenbaum et. al. vs. Bialick et. al., 27-cv-19-953, MN; Handwriting
06/2022 Harry Blonigen vs. Steven Long; Todd Co., MN; Handwriting; Indented Writing Impressions; Paper Examinations, Ink Examinations, Staple holes
06/2022 Deposition – Estate of Cletus Brincks. vs. Marvin Brincks, IA; Handwriting
08/2022 Christian Donovan vs. Serena Thompson; IA; Handwriting
09/2022 State of MN vs. Eric Reinbold; Pennington County, MN; Handwriting
09/2022 Deposition - Jennifer Schoberg vs. Dennis & Barbra Engelstad, MN; Handwriting
06/2023 Apolinar Colon et all vs. Moises Flores et al; Shawano Co. WI; Handwriting
06/2023 Jason George et al vs. Stephanie George et al; Wright Co. MN; Handwriting
07/2023 State of OH vs. Tyrone Lee Noling; Judgment Entry Hearing Case No. 2022-P-0057 Innocence Project
08/2023 Deposition – Harvey Slepian vs. Rosalee Slepian; IL; Case 18-P-00406;IL; Handwriting
08/2023 Cletus Brincks vs. Marvin Brincks; IOWA; Case LACV015705; Handwriting
08/2023 Judd Boedecker vs. Dan Thomas; OR Case 22CV29742; Handwriting
09/2023 Estate of Patrick McCarthy vs. Jodi McCarthy, et al; MN; Documents & Handwriting
12/2023 Sha’Ron Webb vs. Brooks Funeral Home, Inc. and Margaret Brooks, MN; Handwriting
12/2023 Estate of Robert Brent Mussell, Curt Lein – Attorney, Howard County, WI
04/2024 Marie Weigel Pick vs. Marilyn Stenzel, Waseca Co., MN; Handwriting
09/2024 Estate of Edward Shega vs. Cheryl Shega, St. Louis Co., MN; Handwriting; Alterations
Certifications & Organizations
Board Certifications
- Diplomate – American Board of Forensic Document Examiners (ABFDE) Certification #342, Attained Board Certification; October - 2006 - present
- Involvement: ABFDE Newsletter Editor – 2008 – 2010
- Served as a Director on the Board of Directors, 2009 – 2017; – 2019 - present
- Served as Vice President, Testing Committee Chair, and Professional Review Committee Chair, 2010 – 2017; Testing Committee Chair, 2019 - present
- Involvement: Test Preparation & Validation Chair – 2017 - present, Testing Committee Chair – 2019 - present, Nominations Committee Chair – 2020 – present
Professional Organizations
- American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE)
- Full Member: 2013 – present
- Provisional Member 2006 - 2013
- Involvement: Program Chair – 2010
- Treasurer – 2016 to 2019
- Vice President – 2019 to 2023
- Attended Meetings: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists (MAFS)
- Member: 2000 - 2018
- Involvement: QD Section Coordinator - 2008, 2009; Training/Education Committee 2009
- Co-Chairman – 2008 MFRC QD symposium, Ames, IA.
- Workshop Coordinator - Fall Workshop Coordinator for Joint SAFS, MAFS, MAAFS, CSFS, Meeting 2004, MAFS Meeting 2009
- Attended Meetings: 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
- Member - American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)
- Associate Member: 2018 – present
- Member – Southeastern Association of Forensic Document Examiners (SAFDE)
- Corresponding Member: 2019 - present
- Member – American Society of Crime Lab Directors – Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD - LAB)
- Involvement: Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Member: 2009 - 2015
- ISO/ASCLD-LAB Questioned Document Assessor: Certified 2011 - 2015
National Standard Organizations
- Member – American Standards for Testing and Materials (ASTM - E30.00)
- Involvement: Committee Member E30.02: 2006 – 2012
- Committee Member E30.00: 2006 – 2013
- Member – Scientific Working Group for Forensic Document Examination (SWGDOC)
- Member: 2013 - present
- Member – Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Forensic Document Examination Sub Committee Chair: 2021 - 2023
- Sub-Group Chair of Questioned Document Examiners Standards, Member: 2014 – 2023
- Associate Member: 2023 – present
- Member – AAFS Standards Board, LLC (ASB) - An ANSI-accredited Standards Developing Organization (SDO)
- Member: 2017 – present
Research & Publications
"Development of Individuality in Children's Handwriting"
Srihari, Sargur N., Lu Meng, and Lisa Hanson. Journal of Forensic Sciences 61, no.5 (2016): p. 1292-1300
"Studies in Individuality: Can Students, Teachers and Schools Be Determined From Children's Handwriting?"
Srihari, Sargur N., Gang Chen, Zhen Xu, and Lisa Hanson. Computational Forensics (2015) , p. 20-30.
"Development of Handwriting Individuality: An Information-Theoretic Study"
Srihari, Sargur N., Zhen Xu, and Lisa Hanson. Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2014 14th International Conference, p. 601-606
"Probabilistic Modeling of Children's Handwriting"
Puri, Mukta, Sargur N. Srihari, and Lisa Hanson. IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, p. 902103. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2013.
Grant Received from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Award 2010-DN-BX-K212
October 2010
The award was given under an NIJ Fundamental Research Grant Program titled Improve Understanding of the Accuracy, Reliability, and Measurement Validity of Forensic Science Disciplines (FY2010). Ms. Hanson’s research involved gathering, managing and analyzing hand printed and cursive data collected over a span of three years. This research project resulted in multiple papers; however, more specifically the article titled, DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUAL HANDWRITING CHARACTERISTICS IN ~1800 STUDENTS: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND LIKELIHOOD RATIOS THAT EMERGE OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME.
Published May 15, 2016