Dwight E. Adams

Dwight E Adams (born 2 February 1955), is a forensic scientist.

Education Adams received a B.S. in biology from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1977. He went on to study biology and microbiology and received an M.S. in biology from Illinois State University in 1979 and a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Oklahoma in 1982.

Career

Adams' career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation began as a special agent in 1983 in Memphis, Tennessee. Adams joined the FBI Laboratory in Virginia in 1987. While at the laboratory, Adams headed the research team that "developed and validated the DNA testing procedures ultimately used in the FBI and throughout the world." Adams' research into reliability of DNA through validation enabled the FBI to be the first public crime laboratory to offer DNA testing for criminal casework. the largest and most complex laboratory of its kind in the world with an operational budget of more than $100 million. Adams is also a scientific advisor to DNA Solutions, an Oklahoma DNA analysis company.