CAROL HENDERSON
Director, National Clearinghouse for Science,
Technology and the Law
Professor of Law

J.D., George Washington University

Professor Henderson is a recognized authority in scientific evidence, ethics and criminal law, and has presented more than 200 lectures and workshops in eleven countries. Professor Henderson has written three books and more than 45 articles and book chapters on scientific evidence, law and ethics. She is an editor of the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, which recently received the Minty Prize of the Medico-Legal Society awarded by The Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Medicine. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Forensic Sciences, Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine and the Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology Journal. Professor Henderson has appeared in both the popular and professional media, including Fox News, Court TV, CBS's "48 Hours" show, The John Walsh Show, the American Bar Association Journal and Lawyers Weekly USA. She is secretary of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, has served as a vice president, board of directors member and chair of the jurisprudence section. She is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Forensic Committee and National Institute of Justice General Forensics Technology Working Group and Court Technology Working Group, as well as the Vice-Chair of the Future of Evidence Committee, American Bar Association Science and Technology Law Section.

In 1999 Professor Henderson received the American Academy of Forensic Sciences' Jurisprudence Section's Harold A. Feder Award. She is an Honorary Member of the American College of Legal Medicine.

Professor Henderson earned her J.D. degree from The National Law Center, George Washington University in 1980. She has worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Department of Justice Criminal Division, served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington, D.C., and practiced corporate litigation for a national law firm. She was a Professor of Law at the Shepard Broad Law Center, Nova Southeastern University from 1986 to 2006. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at Stetson from 2003 to 2006. She is presently a tenured Professor of Law at Stetson.

Carol Henderson
Stetson University College of Law
1401 61st Street South
St. Petersburg, FL 33707
(727) 562-7316
watson@law.stetson.edu

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