---
category: PROMIS Scandal
created: 2024-04-25
summary: Joyce H. Deroy was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who subsequently
  joined INSLAW as a systems analyst engaged in programming and data analysis, contributed
  research to the PROMIS Research Project under LEAA grants in the 1970s, and by 1996
  was serving as acting executive director of university computing at American University.
tags:
- Person
- PROMIS
- INSLAW
updated: 2026-05-01
---

Joyce H. Deroy was a member of the original 1969 team assembled to design the [Prosecutor's Management Information System](/programs/promis/), working under co-directors [Joan E. Jacoby](/people/joan-e-jacoby/) and [Charles R. Work](/people/charles-r-work/) with project manager [Bill Hamilton](/people/bill-hamilton/) at [Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co](/organizations/peat-marwick-mitchell-co/). The resulting system was deployed January 1, 1971.[^1]

Deroy subsequently joined [INSLAW](/organizations/inslaw/) as a systems analyst, engaged in programming and data analysis. She is listed among the researchers on the PROMIS Research Project -- the multi-year empirical criminal justice study conducted by [ILSR](/organizations/inslaw/) under successive [LEAA](/organizations/leaa/) grants (74-NI-99-0008, 75-NI-99-0111, and 76-NI-99-0118) during the 1970s, which produced 17 published reports analyzing approximately 100,000 cases processed through the DC court system.[^1]

By 1996, Deroy was serving as acting executive director of university computing at American University in Washington, D.C.[^2]

[^1]: Cannavale, Frank J. *Witness Cooperation: With a Handbook of Witness Management.* Lexington Books, 1976; U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report.* House Report 102-857, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, September 10, 1992.
[^2]: *Computerworld*, 1996. Internet Archive, archive.org/details/computerworld3037unse.