William L. Bainbridge, Ph.D., FACFE

William L. Bainbridge, Ph.D., FACFE, is a forensic education expert with extensive experience in school related accidents, incidents, sexual abuse and educational evaluation for child custody. He has been qualified as an education standards/policy expert in over 30 states. Dr. Bainbridge has more than 20 years experience auditing school systems and documenting educational standards of care and designing/analyzing/reporting research involving school effectiveness.

He currently serves as President and CEO of the SchoolMatch® Institute and as a Distinguished Research Professor at The University of Dayton. Since 1986 he has been a consultant to over 1000 organizations including law firms, school systems, corporations and government agencies. He is the former superintendent of three school districts in Ohio and Virginia and served on the executive staff of the Ohio Department of Education and Professor for the National Academy for School Executives.

While leading SchoolMatch®, the nation's only comprehensive research and information service on public and private schools, beginning in 1986, lawyers began consulting with him on cases ranging from child custody school evaluation to establishing standards of care in a wide range of accidents and incidents occurring on the watch of school systems. Publication of Dr. Bainbridge's work in THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY, many daily newspapers and appearances on NBC'S TODAY SHOW, ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, CBS, Fox News, to name a few, motivated lawyers to contact Dr. Bainbridge. Working with lawyers provides Dr. Bainbridge with a new area to apply his knowledge of public and private school and school system standards, policy, research, evaluation, practices and effectiveness.

Named Educator of the Year by the Ohio PTA, Dr. Bainbridge is a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners and Diplomate of the National Academy for School Executives. He has completed certification programs with The Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University and The Disney Institute. He earned his Ph.D. at The Ohio State University, and completed post-doctoral studies at Columbia University. He is a Director and Foundation Chair of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville, Florida.