2022-2024 Executive Committee

Samiah Ibrahim

President

Samiah Ibrahim was elected ASQDE president in 2020  and re-elected in 2022. She served as ASQDE vice president in 2018-2020, as well as two prior terms as director. 

Regular Member since 2006.

In 2022, Ibrahim retired from serving as manager of the Forensic Document and Facial Identification Section of the Canada Border Services Agency to enter full-time private practice. 

Jason Lee Miller

VICE PRESIDENT

Jason Miller, former ASQDE president, was appointed vice president in 2023 to finish the term of the retiring vice president, in accordance with the Bylaws.

Regular Member since 2006.

Miller worked as a forensic document examiner for the Internal Revenue Service for several years and is currently in private practice.

Thomas W. Vastrick

Secretary

Thomas W. Vastrick was elected secretary in 2022 after serving in the same position from 2018-2020.

Life Member since 2019.

Vastrick is in full-time private practice in Florida.  ABFDE certified.​

Laura Mancebo

TREasurer

Laura Mancebo was elected ASQDE treasurer in 2020 and re-elected in 2022. 

Regular member since 2015. 

Mancebo is a Senior Document Examiner at Applied Forensics in New York. ​ABFDE certified.

Brenda Lanners

director

Brenda Lanners was appointed director of the ASQDE EC in 2023 to complete the current term of the resigning director, and also serves as chair of the Membership & Credentials committee.
 
Regular member since 2018.
 
Lanners is a forensic document examiner with the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Lab. ABFDE Certified.

Khody Detwiler

director

Khody Detwiler was elected director of the ASQDE EC in 2022 and serves as chair of the Evaluation & Examination committee.

Regular member since 2020.

Detwiler is a principle at Lesnevich & Detwiler where he has been employed as a Forensic Document Examiner since 2008.

OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

According to the ASQDE Bylaws, only Regular Members and Life Members are entitled to hold office in the Society and to vote at General Meetings, but all other classes of Members are entitled to attend General Meetings and to participate therein.

The affairs and activities of the Society shall be managed by an Executive Committee comprised of the Officers of the Society, which shall be:
 
      a)   the President,
      b)   the Vice President,
      c)   the Secretary,
      d)   the Treasurer,
      e)   a minimum of two Directors.
 
These officers shall be elected to office by Ordinary Resolution at a General Meeting to serve, commencing 60 days following their election, for a period of two years or until their successors have been elected, provided that no office shall be filled by the same person for a period in excess of four years.