Jerry Chisum

William Jerry Chisum has been a criminalist since 1960. He studied under Paul Kirk at UC Berkeley where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry. He worked in San Bernardino, then set up the Kern County Laboratory in Bakersfield. After joining the California Dept. of Justice, he took a leave of absence (1971-73) to work at Stanford Research Institute. He has been involved in Laboratory management and adminsitration for most of his career.

Jerry has always been interested in evidence at the crime scene. He developed several methods that he shares with his students. He taught as a part time professor at the California State University, Sacramento for 4 years. He has instructed, with Joe Rynearson for over 20 years, in various locations in California, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, New Mexico and Nevada. He has lectured on Crime Scene Reconstruction at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, UC Berkeley, the University of New Haven, the Connecticut State Police Academy's First Conference on Serial Murders, Oklahoma City's Second Conference on Serial Murders, the Nashville Symposium on Crime Scene Reconstruction, Reno, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Los Angeles, the First Chinese-American Conference on Police Science in Tiawan, the Australian Forensic Science Society in Brisbane, Australia,and the Tri-State Annual Law Enforcement Conference in Great Spirit Lake, Iowa.

He has been President of the California Assoication of Criminalists three times, only one other person has served two terms. He served as President of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors and as President of the Stanislaus County Peace Officers Association.