Ruth E. Holmes, C.D.E. is a professional handwriting and document examiner whose forensic and personnel consulting firm, Pentec, Inc., advises individual, legal and corporate clients in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Pentec, Inc. works frequently for human resource divisions, financial institutions, police departments, and manufacturers. Ruth, along with Sarah E. Holmes, have worked as jury consultants with some of the leading attorneys in the country.
Ruth is court qualified as an expert witness in federal, state, and local courts. She lived eleven years in Brussels, Belgium, and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, West Africa, and has appeared on CBS News, Discovery, CNBC, BBC, Canada AM, Court TV, and Dateline/NBC. She is the former President of the International Women’s Forum–Michigan and serves on the Board of Directors of Women Officials Network, who named her a 2014 Wonder Woman. Ruth has been named one of Michigan’s Top 10 Women Business Owners, and in 2010, Innovator of the Year by the National Association of Women Business Owners. In March 2002, Corp! magazine listed her among “Michigan’s 95 Most Powerful Women.”
Sarah has promoted the value of handwriting for major corporations at conventions across the professional spectrum. She has lectured on the subject to many groups around the country and has been reported in the Boston Globe, Penworld, DM News, and numerous local papers. She graduated from Boston University in May of 2002 with a Master of Arts in Psychology.
