Cleveland Miles

Mr. Cleveland Miles currently serves as the Division Director in the Division of Forensic Sciences (Crime lab), a position he was appointed to in October 2019. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Fort Valley State University. His career began with the GBI Crime Laboratory as a Laboratory Assistant in the Drug Identification Chemistry discipline in January 2000, where he provided analytical support to the scientist staff of that department. In 2001, Cleveland was promoted to a Forensic Biologist in the Forensic Biology/DNA discipline with the Crime lab, where he was responsible for analyzing evidence for the presence of bodily fluids, DNA testing and providing expert witness testimony in criminal cases. He was promoted to an Assistant Manager of the Forensic Biology discipline at the Headquarters Crime Laboratory in 2006 and then to Discipline Manager for Forensic Biology in 2012. In this position, Cleveland had oversight of the daily operations and analysis of evidence from criminal cases submitted by local law enforcement agencies to the Forensic Biology discipline until 2017 when he was promoted to Assistant Deputy Director. In addition to regular duties at the GBI Crime Lab, Mr. Miles was a trained auditor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Quality Assurance Standards for Forensic DNA testing and have served as a contracted auditor with the National Forensic Science Training Center (NFSTC) and Forensic Quality Services (FQS) for compliance to these standards at laboratories throughout the country. He has also received assessor training for the American Crime Laboratory Directors-Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD-LAB) and Internal Organization for Standardization/ International Electrotechnical Commission 17025 (ISO/IEC 17025) accreditation standards. Mr. Miles is a member of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the Southern Association of Forensic Scientists professional forensic organizations and has served on multiple technical working groups for the field of forensics.