• Robin J. Woolery
• Deputy Director

Deputy Director (DD) Robin Woolery graduated from Dillard University in Chemistry then attended Northwestern University. She began her career in Forensics in 1992, after completing her Master’s degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. She worked with the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Drug Chemist for two years and then moved to Des Moines, IA and began working with the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. This position allowed DD Woolery to work as a Drug Criminalist and a Crime Scene Investigator. She specialized in Clandestine Lab Investigations for five years. In 2000, she and her family returned to the Chicagoland area and she began her career with the Illinois State Police in 2001. DD Woolery worked as an analyst at the Forensic Science Center at Chicago (FSC-C) until she became a Drug Chemistry Group Supervisor at the Joliet Forensic Science Laboratory in 2003. In 2007, she was promoted to Laboratory Director at the Joliet Lab. In January 2017, she returned to the FSC-C as the Lab Director. She was promoted to Assistant Deputy Director of the Division of Forensic Services in 2019. DD Woolery oversees the Division of Forensic Services. The Division is made up of division administration staff and two Commands- the Forensic Science Command (FSC) and the Scene and Evidence Services Command (SESC). The FSC is comprised of approximately 400 Forensic Scientists, Evidence Technicians and administrative staff. The SESC is made up of Crime Scene Investigators, Traffic Crash Reconstruction Officers and Statewide Evidence Vault Technicians.

• Lieutenant Colonel Dagmara Wojtas
• Assistant Deputy Director

Lieutenant Colonel Dagmara Wojtas was appointed as the Division of Forensic Services Assistant Deputy Director in January 2025. Lieutenant Colonel Wojtas has served the Illinois State Police in many roles, most recently in the Division of Criminal Investigation as the Commander of the Statewide Special Investigations Unit. Her diversity of experience includes the Division of Internal Investigation, as an Investigative Commander, the Division of Criminal Investigation, Zone 1, Public Integrity Task Force Commander, General Criminal Investigations Units, and command staff officer assignments in Region I and Region II. Lieutenant Colonel Wojtas graduated with Cadet Class #110 and began her career in District 2 Elgin in 2005, where she was assigned to patrol as well as the Special Project Officer.

Lieutenant Colonel Wojtas completed the Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command, and Northwestern University Supervision of Police Personnel. Lieutenant Colonel Wojtas graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed four years of Geology studies with a minor in biology/paleontology at the University of Silesia, Poland.