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ANDREA McNICHOL
FORENSIC HANDWRITING & DOCUMENT EXPERT
EDUCATION
1991-1996 Certified Forensic Examiner, American Board of
Forensic Examiners; Diplomate of American College of Forensic Examiners.
1968-1974 Apprenticed & conducted research studies in
examination of questioned documents with Alameda, Contra Costa Counties Police
& Sheriff Departments: Santa Monica Police Forensic Departments.
Areas studied included standards of handwriting comparison; effects of
aging, drugs, alcohol & physical conditions on the writing process;
laboratory procedures inclusive of paper & pen differentiations,
chemical testing, alterations, typewritten evaluations, transparencies,
filter & infrared photography, ultraviolet & x-ray use.
1962-1968 Obtained Bachelor of Arts and Life-time Teaching
Credential from U.C. Berkeley.
PUBLICATIONS
1991 Author, HANDWRITING ANALYSIS, PUTTING IT TO WORK FOR
YOU, published by Contemporary Books, Chicago, 350 pages, updated
edition 1994; 5th re-printing. 10th
Reprinting-McGraw Hill 2006.
1982 Author, publisher, FACTS ABOUT QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS,
AUTHENTICITY, VALUE, FORGERIES AND PREVENTION for training seminars
for banks, law enforcement, government agencies and security fields.
1981 Published in PROFESSIONAL PROTECTION, a Canadian
publication on the uses of graphology and examination of questioned
documents in law enforcement and the security fields.
1978 Author, publisher, ADVANCED STUDIES IN GRAPHOLOGY,
a book detailing the results of my eight years of intensive research and
hands-on experience in the fields of graphology and examination of
questioned documents, under the auspices of U.C. Berkeley.
1976 Profiled in MINDSTYLES, LIFESTYLES, U.C. sociology
textbook by Dr. Nathanial Lande,
Price/Stern/Sloan.
ARTICLES AND MEDIA APPEARANCES
1976-Present Featured in THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE
DAILY NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, FORTUNE MAGAZINE, SECURITY
MANAGEMENT PROTECTION, NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Featured in full page article in TIME
MAGAZINE, September 6, 1982; also interviewed by TIME MAGAZINE
regarding Hitler Diaries, May 16, 1983.
Interviewed on GOOD MORNING AMERICA,
THE JOHNNY CARSON
SHOW, CNN NEWSNIGHT, AMERICAN JOURNAL, CBS, NBC and ABC EVENING NEWS.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since 1974 I have been an Instructor of Graphology for the University of California on six campuses, and
have served as a consultant to individuals, businesses and law
enforcement agencies in the areas of examination of questioned documents
and forensic graphology. Clients include United Technologies, Time Inc.,
Ford Motor Co., CNN, Procter & Gamble, Baskin-Robbins, Lowes Food, Longs Drug Stores, Mitsubishi, United
Parcel Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation..
I am a presenter and instructor of forensic document examination for such
organizations as the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the International Association of Law Enforcement
Intelligence Analysts, and the American Society for Industrial
Security. I have testified at all
court levels throughout the United States. I am proficient in the Spanish language
and have taught at the University
of Mexico in Mexico City in 1978,'79,& '80. Please contact me for references regarding
document case work and expert testimony, of some or major significance,
conducted over the last several years.
Copyright 2008 Andrea McNichol
- Handwriting Expert
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