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DMORT

Region VI

Past Featured Members

Bobby Humphries

\Bobby Humphries is a latent print examiner with over 18 years of experience. He is also a member of DMORT, Region VI. When not assisting DMORT, he is employed with the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory.

During his professional career, he has earned several certifications including Arkansas Senior Law Enforcement Certificate, Certified Law Enforcement Training Instructor, International Association for Identification-Certified Latent Print Examiner, Certified Arkansas Concealed Weapons Instructor, and Certified Instructor with Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Mass Fatality Critical Incident.

He has received Officer of the year in 1985 and Officer of the Quarter in 1996.

Mr. Humphries belongs to the following professional organizations: Past Executive Board Member- Arkansas Municipal Police Association, Current member Arkansas Division of the International Association for Identification, Past Chairman of Latent Print Certification Committee of the ADIAI, Current member of the International Association for Identification, Past President of the Texarkana, Arkansas Police Association and

Past Executive Board Member; Arkansas Narcotics Officers Association.

Mr. Humphries has been deployed with DMORT on the following missions: Oklahoma City Tornado, May 1999, World Trade Center, September 2001, Hurricane Katrina/Rita, September 2005 and Hurricane Ike, 2008.

Featured Member

Peter W. Loomis, DDS

Dr. Loomis is the forensic odontologist for the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has been a consultant for 30 years. He received his dental degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1972, and completed a one year general practice residency with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1973. He maintained a general dental practice in his hometown of Albuquerque from 1975 until he retired in 2002.

He received his formal training in forensic odontology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine.

Current affiliations and certifications:

Forensic Odontologist for the NM Office of the Medical Investigator

Diplomate American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO)

Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS)

Member of the American Society of Forensic Odontology (ASFO)

Member of the Board of Directors ABFO

Chairman of the Missing and Unidentified Persons subcommittee of the ABFO

Chairman of the Dental Identification Workshop Committee of the ABFO

Director of the NM Mass Fatality Incident Dental ID Team

Forensic Odontologist for DMORT Region 6

SW Regional Forensic Odontologist for NamUs (TX, NM, AZ, NV, UT, CA, HI)

FBI-CJIS National Dental Image Repository review panel

Dr. Loomis was deployed with DMORT to on the following missions: Hurricane Katrina/Rita , September 2005 and January 2006 and Hurricane Ike, September 2008

Dr. Loomis is married and has five children and six wonderful grandchildren.

Jamie Hawthorne

Jamie Hawthorne is a Funeral Director/Embalmer and has been for the past 6 years working with her husband David at Waldrope Hatfield Hawthorne Funeral Homes, Inc. in Llano and Kingsland Texas. Besides working as a Funeral Director/Embalmer, Jamie also works as a Certified Surgical Technician at Llano Memorial Hospital.

She graduated Commonwealth Institute of Funeral Service in 2004 as a member of the National Honor Society, the Deans List all four Quarters as well as receiving the Restorative Artist Award.

Jamie is the Deputy Administrative Officer for DMORT Region VI and has been deployed to work the Shuttle Columbia Disaster, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008.

She is married to David Hawthorne and they share six children and six grandchildren.