Lois Gibson

Lois Gibson (born c. 1950) is an American forensic artist who holds a 2017 Guinness World Record for most identifications by a forensic artist. She also drew the first forensic sketch shown on America's Most Wanted, which helped identify the suspect and solve the case.

Early life Gibson was born circa 1950. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Career Gibson decided to become a forensic artist after being assaulted and nearly killed when she was living in Los Angeles.

Gibson's work supported Glenn McDuffie's 2007 claim of being the man seen kissing the woman in Alfred Eisenstaedt's photo V-J Day in Times Square. Gibson's forensic analysis compared the Eisenstaedt photographs with current-day photographs of McDuffie, analyzing key facial features and measuring the ears, facial bones, hairline, wrist, knuckles, and hand in comparison to enlargements of Eisenstaedt's picture. According to Gibson, "I could tell just in general that yes, it's him, but I wanted to be able to tell other people so I replicated the pose".

In 2017, Gibson's work supported the claims of Jesse James descendant Sandra Mills that a tintype photograph she owned showed James sitting next to Robert Ford.

Gibson appeared as herself on To Tell The Truth.

In 2018, Gibson worked with adult film star and director Stormy Daniels to create a composite sketch of a suspect that Daniels alleges threatened her in 2011 in a parking lot in Las Vegas to keep quiet about her affair with President Donald Trump.

In 2026, Gibson made national news with a composite sketch of the person suspected in the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie drawn from the video image of a person in a balaclava mask on Guthrie's front porch after midnight.

Personal life Gibson is married and has two children, among which one is Christian Gibson, global head of Energy Investment Banking at Stifel Financial Corp.