identification when there is suggestiveness involved in the identification. Wells' later writings have made an even stronger case for how the Court's approach is flawed given the findings in eyewitness science (Wells & Quinlivan, 2009). Recent state supreme court rulings have used Wells' critique of Manson vs. Braithwaite to fashion new approaches to assessing the reliability of eyewitness identification evidence (e.g., State v. Henderson in New Jersey and State v. Lawson in Oregon). In agreement with the basic arguments in the Wells & Quinlivan article, the report from the study committee of the National Academy of Sciences endorsed the idea of casting out the Manson v. Braithwaite approach to evaluating the reliability of eyewitness identifications. Wells' testimony in court cases and eyewitness research on system and estimator variables has influenced legislation and state Supreme Court decisions. States such as New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Vermont, Illinois, and Connecticut, for example, now require double-blind lineups and other safeguards for eyewitness identification evidence that Wells advocated. Wells' work with the U.S. Department of Justice under Attorney General Janet Reno resulted in the first set of national recommendations for law enforcement regarding the collection and preservation of eyewitness evidence (Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement). In 2003, the United States Court of Appeals 7th Circuit upheld Wells' testimony in a Chicago civil suit pertaining to lineup procedures in which the defendant was pardoned innocence after the allegation that the police officer induced the three witnesses to identify him as the perpetrator (Newsome vs. McCabe, 2003). For his testimony, Wells conducted an experiment to examine the likelihood that all three of the witnesses would pick the defendant out of a lineup. The results suggested that the police officers manipulated the lineup due to the probability of picking the defendant being less than one in 1000. Reforms for legal standards in eyewitness identifications have been also noted in other cases such as State v. Larry R. Henderson and questions of constitutionality for eyewitness identifications have been raised (Perry v. New Hampshire). Honors, awards, and memberships Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences James Mckeen Cattell Award for the Association for Psychological Sciences On August 18, 2010, was awarded the first ever Stavish Chair in the Social Sciences at Iowa State University. Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Psychology, Kansas State university Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Psychology, Ohio State