Accomplishments as Chief Deputy Coroner

  • Affiliation with Idaho’s only Medical School.

  • Oversaw acquisition and installation of CT Unit.

  • Brett recruited and acquired a new forensic pathologist.

  • Established a professional relationship with Forensic Pathology Services for part time physicians.

  • Created a relationship with the Ada County Medical Society to educate physicians on the signing of death certificates.

  • Advanced Medicolegal Investigator training, methods, and capability.

  • Authored and distributed a white paper on the Modern Coroner to raise the level of professional practice for Idaho Coroners.

  • Educated Idaho coroners on accepted practices for medicolegal death investigation.

  • Established alternative revenue streams to supplement ACCO.

  • Implemented new call vehicles with off-road capability and power cots.

  • Implemented new safety practices in forensic operations.

  • Strengthened stakeholder relationships.

  • Contributed to enhanced mass fatality preparedness.

  • Established an acceptable method for handling skeletal remains.

  • Institute culturally sensitive practices for decedents.  

Accolades

  • Bachelor’s Degree Criminology (BA), University of South Florida

  • Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), Nova Southeastern University

  • Registered Medicolegal Death Investigator (D-ABMDI)

  • Board Certified Medicolegal Death Investigators (F-ABMDI)

  • Certified Retrospective Fatality Analyst (C-RFA)

  • Certified Psychological Autopsy Investigator (2019)

  • Served on the Advisory Council and the Board of Directors for the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI)

  • The International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners (IACME) Board of Directors

  • Forensic Science Foundation (FSF) Board of Trustees

  • National Association Retrospective Fatality Analysts (NARFA) Board of Directors

  • Basic X-ray Machine Operator, License No. 50497

  • FCC Amateur License KK7MVF

  • 20th Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC) appointed by Florida Governor Jeb Bush

  • Florida Gulf Coast University, former Instructor

  • Edison State College, former Adjunct Professor

  • University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine, former Adjunct Instructor

  • Published numerous articles in the Journal of Forensic Sciences and the Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology 

  • IACME “Investigator of the Year” 2024

  •  John R. Hunt Award for sustained superior contributions to AAFS and the forensic science community 2025