Deputy Coroner

DeAnna Lynn Webber

Major(s): Anthropology (Physical)

Current Job Title: Deputy Coroner

Brief description of your job:

Conduct homicide, suicide, accidental and other unnatural death investigations. Duties include assisting in autopsies, conducting scene investigations, taking fluid, toxicology, and tissue samples, testifying as and expert witness at inquiry and trial hearings, fingerprinting bodies, making death notifications, collecting and securing evidence, participating as a member of the violent crime task force.

Other job titles you have held:

Special Agent for the Department of Defense, Forensic Investigator

What advice do you have for current students?

Go the extra mile while obtaining your degree. If you know what you want to do with your education, fashion your major and any extra undergraduate research or honors courses so that you obtain as much experience and knowledge as possible.

Mentor yourself to one of the many excellent professors that are experts in your field. They can offer you advice and opportunity that you might not otherwise have knowledge of. I would not be where I am today if it weren't for the guidance and friendship of my professors in the Department of Anthropology.