---
category: "Technologists"
created: 2024-04-25
updated: 2026-05-01
tags:
  - Person
  - PROMIS
  - INSLAW
summary: "Sidney H. Brounstein was a member of the original 1969 PROMIS design team, a Peat Marwick consultant who had previously worked in IBM's Federal Systems Division, and subsequently Vice President of INSLAW, Inc.; he died June 7, 2017, at age 88."
born: 1929
died: 2017-06-07
---
Sidney H. Brounstein was born in 1929. In 1967 he worked at the Public Administration Systems Department of IBM's Federal Systems Division. In 1969, he was a member of the team assembled under U.S. Attorney [[Thomas A. Flannery]] 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]]. He continued consulting for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. at least through 1972, and later joined [[INSLAW]] as a Vice President. He served as a professor at Montgomery College. Brounstein died June 7, 2017, at age 88, after a short illness.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^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.