This research appearing on this website is coordinated by Douglas Van Epps J.D., a Lansing-based attorney and 27-year member of the MSUFCU. Van Epps served 31 years as an attorney-analyst and program administrator with the Michigan Supreme Court and in that capacity, he supervised and participated in many program evaluations at both the state and federal levels, and provided management assistance to non-profit organizations and courts throughout the state.

Van Epps is a former Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor, and is the former owner of The Company Disc Emporium, a business situated in East Lansing in the 1980's. He currently resides in Dimondale.