James G. Wigmore

James G. Wigmore worked as a forensic alcohol toxicologist at one of the foremost laboratories in North America — the Centre of Forensic Sciences, in Toronto, Ontario — from 1976 until his retirement in 2005. He obtained his honors B.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 1980. He is a designated analyst under section 254(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada and was a member of the national advisory board, the Alcohol Test Committee (which advises the federal Department of Justice on breath and blood alcohol testing), from 1993 to 2005. Wigmore has testified in over 600 criminal trials at various levels of court as well as civil and coroner cases, and has published more than 50 articles in the field of forensic alcohol toxicology. He was the recipient in October 2005 of the most prestigious award of the Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences, the Derome Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of forensic science. In 2004, Wigmore became a faculty member of the Center of Studies for Law in Action, and he lectures at the Borkenstein Course at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.