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category: "PROMIS Scandal"
created: 2024-04-25
updated: 2026-05-01
tags:
- Person
- Incomplete Research
- PROMIS
- INSLAW
- DoJ
summary: "Dennis W. Wright was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team who went on to work for INSLAW directly by 1974, and by 1990 was a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the DOJ's ICMS Re-engineering project within the Division of Innovations and Systems Development."
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> [!WARNING] INCOMPLETE RESEARCH
> This page is a placeholder and requires extensive additions.
Dennis W. Wright was a member of the team assembled in 1969 to design the [[PROMIS|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]].[^2]
Worked on the team developing the original 1969 [[PROMIS]] under [[Joan E. Jacoby]], [[Charles R. Work]], and [[Bill Hamilton]].
By 1974 Wright was working for [[INSLAW]] directly. By 1990 he was employed by the [[Department of Justice]] as a Senior Research Computer Scientist in the ICMS Re-engineering project within the Division of Innovations and Systems Development -- the DOJ's Integrated Case Management System successor to PROMIS, which Wright had helped design two decades earlier.[^1]
As of 1974, Dennis was working for [[INSLAW]][^2] directly.
### Footnotes
In 1990, Dennis was a Senior Research Computer Scientist working in the [[ICMS]] Re-engineering project within the [[Division of Innovations and Systems Development]][^1] of the [[U.S. Department of Justice]].
#### Footnotes
[^1]: [1990 Annual Report Federal Judicial Center](https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/132273NCJRS.pdf)
[^2]: [Management of data elements in information processing](https://archive.org/details/managementofdata7446mcew/page/474/mode/2up?q=%22dennis+w.+wright%22)
[^1]: Federal Judicial Center. *1990 Annual Report.* U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/132273NCJRS.pdf.
[^2]: McEwen, J. Thomas. *Management of Data Elements in Information Processing.* National Bureau of Standards, 1974.