wight Adams’ Oklahoma Rene’ Robison, his girlfriend Droots run deep. His paternal since junior high. After earning family settled in Carter County his undergraduate and graduate and his mother is a Seminole degrees from UCO and Illinois native. The family made their State University respectively, home in Edmond when Adams’ Adams completed the Ph.D. father transferred to the metro program at the University of PHO for work, the same year Adams Oklahoma and prepared for an T O entered kindergarten. academic appointment. Instead, he B Y CREEL Active in school activities and landed a job at 7-11. M Boy Scouts, he looked forward to Exploring alternate careers CF 昀椀shing weekends at the Ardmore to bene昀椀t from his doctoral ARLAND family farm with his grandfather. It degree, he was accepted as a | LIMERICK was during his senior year he visited FBI Special Agent. After his Washington, D.C., unaware of the swearing in, he spent four months S role the city would play in his life. training in Quantico, Virginia TUDIO While at the University of before assignments in Memphis, . Central Oklahoma he married Tennessee and, ultimately, back to Washington. At the newly-created DWIGHT ADAMS DNA Research Team he was the EDMOND only agent quali昀椀ed to perform DNA analysis of evidence and became the 昀椀rst to testify on such in a criminal proceeding. An expert witness in more than 130 trials, including New York City’s Central Park jogger attacks, Adams showed the power of DNA to identify the perpetrators and exonerate the innocent. Promoted to Senior Executive Service, he led mass grave excavations in Kosovo and Mexico, directed scientists and agents during the anthrax investigations, was part of the strong FBI presence at the crime scenes following 9/11, and led personnel to Israel to discuss law enforcement’s approach to post- blast events. Adams received the highest citation bestowed on a W. Roger Webb, left, presented Dwight Adams for induction to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. PHOTO BY CREEL MCFARLAND | LIMERICK STUDIO. 18