---
category: PROMIS Scandal
created: 2024-04-25
summary: Stanley H. Turner held a doctorate and served as Assistant Director for Research
  and Analysis at the Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia under Joan
  E. Jacoby, and was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team.
tags:
- Person
- PROMIS
- INSLAW
updated: 2026-05-01
---

Stanley H. Turner held a doctorate and served as Assistant Director for Research and Analysis at the [Office of Crime Analysis of the District of Columbia](/organizations/office-of-crime-analysis-of-the-district-of-columbia/) under [Joan E. Jacoby](/people/joan-e-jacoby/). In that capacity, he was a member of the original 1969 team assembled to design the [Prosecutor's Management Information System](/programs/promis/), working with co-directors [Joan E. Jacoby](/people/joan-e-jacoby/) and [Charles R. Work](/people/charles-r-work/) and project manager [Bill Hamilton](/people/bill-hamilton/) at [Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co](/organizations/peat-marwick-mitchell-co/).[^1]

[^1]: 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.