Anjali Ranadive

Anjali Ranadive is the President of SciLawForensics, Ltd, a forensic science and legal consulting firm in Phoenix, AZ. Ms. Ranadive is an Advisory Commissioner on the American Academy of Forensic Science’s Forensic (AAFS) Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC), has served on the AAFS program committee in various capacities for the last twenty years and is a former member of the AAFS Board of Directors. She co-edited “Ethics in Forensic Science” published by Elsevier Press in April, 2012. She conducts training of law enforcement, attorneys, judges, forensic scientists and other experts in various aspects of forensic science and law and consults on criminal cases involving complex scientific evidence, especially DNA, across the U.S. Ms. Ranadive is currently an adjunct professor at Arizona State Univerity where she teaches a course on Testimony and Ethics in the undergraduate forensic science program. Ms. Ranadive previously worked as a contractor to the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) Investigative and Forensic Sciences Division where she served as a subject matter expert on Attorney General Reno’s National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, was the coordinator for NIJ’s five annual Conferences on DNA and Science and the Law, and the facilitator of several technical working groups (TWGs) on various forensic issues. Prior to NIJ, Ms. Ranadive worked as a staff DNA analyst at Cellmark Diagnostics where she conducted forensic DNA testing and provided expert testimony across the country. She holds a B.A. in Biology from The Johns Hopkins University, an M.F.S. in Forensic Science from The George Washington University, and a J.D. from the American University, Washington College of Law.