Joyce H. Deroy

Joyce H. Deroy was a member of the original 1969 team assembled to design the Prosecutor's Management Information System, working under co-directors Joan E. Jacoby and Charles R. Work with project manager Bill Hamilton at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. The resulting system was deployed January 1, 1971.¹

Deroy subsequently joined 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 under successive 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