Norah Rudin holds a B.A. from Pomona College and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. She is a
member of the California Association of Criminalists, a fellow of the American Academy of
Forensic Sciences, and has been a Diplomate of the American Board of Criminalistics.
After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, she served three years as a full-time consultant/technical leader for the California Department of Justice DNA
Laboratory and has also served as consulting technical leader for the Idaho Department of Law
Enforcement DNA Laboratory, the San Francisco Crime Laboratory DNA Section, and the San
Diego County Sheriff’s Department DNA Laboratory.
Dr. Rudin has co-authored An Introduction to DNA Forensic Analysis and Principles and Practice of Criminalistics: The Profession of Forensic Science. She is also the author of the Dictionary of Modern Biology.
Dr. Rudin has taught a variety of general forensic and forensic DNA courses for the University of
California at Berkeley extension and on-line. She is frequently invited to speak at various legal
symposia and forensic conferences. She has served a gubernatorial appointment to the Virginia
Department of Forensic Science Scientific Advisory Committee and has been a co-chair of the
Constitution Project Committee on DNA Collection.
Dr. Rudin was part of the group that developed Lab Retriever, an early probabilistic genotyping software tool. She has co-authored peer-reviewed articles on the topic of probabilistic genotyping and provided training to both scientists and attorneys on the subject. She remains active as an independent consultant and expert witness in forensic DNA.