In Memoriam: Jurisprudence Section Fellow Cynthia Windsor, JD

We are saddened to report the passing of AAFS Jurisprudence Section Fellow Cynthia Windsor, JD, who passed away at her home on July 29. 

Originally, the field of law was not Cindy's first career choice. While living in Tucson, AZ, she earned her degree from the University of Arizona and majored in Anthropology. She boasted that as a student of Anthropology, she spent an entire summer piecing together bits and pieces of a 2,000+-year-old male human skull from the Fourche Maline culture (pronounced foosh-ma-lean) as a project given to her from a museum in Oklahoma. She was successful in putting the skull back together, and she lovingly nicknamed him "Mr. Foosh." When she became a full-fledged Anthropologist, she spent about eight years working in Arizona in a human identification lab in the physical anthropology department.   

It was while working in this lab that she crossed paths with deputy district attorneys who would come to the lab to discuss cases. She was so impressed with what they did that she applied as a law student at California Western School of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctorate. She was later hired by the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, where she served over 35 years.  

Cindy joined the AAFS in 1988 and served as Jurisprudence Section Section Chair in 2001-02. We offer our condolences to Cindy's friends and family.