Dr. Linton Mohammed has been in the field of Forensic Document Examination for more than 30 years.  He has testified as an expert witness more than 200 times in the US, England, and the Caribbean. He is the author of “Forensic Examination of Signatures”, and co-author of “The Neuroscience of Handwriting: Applications for Forensic Document Examination”. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Mohammed is certified by the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, Inc, and holds a Diploma in Document Examination from the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences (formerly The Forensic Science Society).

Dr. Mohammed has conducted or co-presented workshops on signature and document examination in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, China, Latvia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Turkey, and the United States.

He was the recipient of the Albert S. Osborn Award of Excellence from the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (2022), the Ordway Hilton Award from the Questioned Documents Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (2019), and the New Horizon Award from the American Board of Forensic Document Examiners, Inc.(2012).

He is a member and Past-President of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, Inc, a Fellow of the Questioned Documents Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, and a member of the Canadian Society of Forensic Science. He is the Editor of the Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, and is also a guest reviewer for several other journals.  

Linton currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and on the Academy Standards Board.

Dr. Mohammed is in private practice in California, United States.