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Ross M. Gardner served as a felony criminal investigator with the United States Army
Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) for nearly twenty years. He retired in 1999
as a Command Sergeant Major and Special Agent after 24 years in U.S. Army law
enforcement. Mr. Gardner then served as Chief of Police for the City of Lake City,
Georgia, a small suburban Atlanta police department, for four years. He is now retired
and works as an independent consultant.

Mr. Gardner holds a Master of Arts in Computer and Information Systems Management
from Webster University, a bachelor’s in criminal justice from Wayland Baptist
University, and an associate’s in Police Science from Central Texas College. He
graduated first in his class from the Scenes of Crime Officers Course at New Scotland
Yard in Hendon, England, in 1985. From 1988 to 1996, he served as an adjunct
professor in Central Texas College’s police science program. He is a former President of
the Rocky Mountain Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts (RMABPA) and the
Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction (ACSR), and has served as Chairman of
the Education Committee for both the RMABPA and the International Association of
Bloodstain Pattern Analysts (IABPA). Mr. Gardner was recognized as a Distinguished
Member of ACSR in 2006. He was a charter member of the FBI Scientific Workgroup on
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (SWGSTAIN) and served as Chairman of the taxonomy and
terminology subcommittee from 2002 to 2009.

From 1990 to 2012, the International Association for Identification certified Mr. Gardner
as a Senior Crime Scene Analyst. He is an active instructor and consultant throughout
the United States in crime scene analysis, bloodstain pattern analysis, and crime scene
investigation, teaching a variety of groups, including police and investigative
organizations as well as trial counsel professional development groups. He authored the
1st and 2nd Editions of Practical Crime Scene Processing and Investigation and co-
authored the third Edition with Donna Krouskup.