Mr. Morris began his training in the Examiner of Questioned Documents Office, U.S. Treasury Department.  From 1973-1975, he worked at the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department, Questioned Document Laboratory.  From 1975-1998 he was assigned to the US Treasury Department, U.S. Secret Service, as a Forensic Document Examiner, from where he retired in 1998.

Presently, Mr. Morris is the President of Ronald N. Morris and Associates, Inc., a company that specializes in handwriting and hand printing identification and other document examinations, such as interlineations and alteration, fabrication techniques, nondestructive ink differentiation, and indentation analysis.

Mr. Morris was a distinguished presenter at the 2006 Third Annual OBI Conference in Washington, DC.  Due to unforseeable circumstances, written materials were not available at the time of conference for attendees.   Therefore, Mr. Morris provides the following materials to OBI for the personal use of OBI members only. 

By viewing or downloading the following information on this page, you agree to certain terms and conditions.  CLICK HERE TO VIEW. If you do not agree, you are not authorized to view or download these forms and must exit this page immediately.      

For permission to utilize this information outside the terms and conditions, please email Ron Morris.

Documents are all in ADOBE PDF format. 

1.     Power Point Slides

1.A   Copy of Form Blindness Test- Arthur

2.     Copy of Form Blindness Test-Gaggle

2A.    Illustration of the Act of Writing

3.     Handwriting, Hand printing identification

4.     Appendix A- Questions

4.A   Appendix A-  Answers to Questions

5.     Appendix B- Handwriting systems

6.     Appendix C- The London Letter

7.     Appendix C- Obtaining collected or non-request specimens

8.     Appendix D- Obtaining requested known handwriting samples

9.     Appendix E- Report writing and opinion terminology

9A.   Nine Rules of Execution

10.   Appendix F- Bibliography

11.   Five principles of handwriting identification

11A. Nine handwriting rules of execution    

11B. Sixteen transient factors affecting review

12.   Submitting your case

12A.  Illustrating the process of comparison

13.   Reasons for qualified conclusions

14.  Instructions for use of handout forms

15.   HSF No 1.    Cursive

16.   HSF No. 2.    Printing

17.   HSF No. 3.    Check format

18.   HSF No. 4.    London Letter

19.   HSF No. 4A.  London Letter

20.   HSF No. 4B   Jim Letter

21.   HSF No. 5     4-02 Signature

22.   HSF No. 6/6A Signatures

23.   Is it fabricated

24.   Ink and paper fabrications