Janet Thornton

In her examination of insurance and credit pricing issues, Dr. Thornton has provided expert reports and testimony in response to litigation and has designed monitoring software specifically tailored to meet her clients’ needs. Additionally, she has provided expert testimony regarding voting rights’ issues involving the analysis of voter identification match rates and voting patterns among demographic groups.

Dr. Thornton has been retained by both plaintiffs and defendants, and has provided expert testimony in federal court, state court, and administrative hearings for more than forty matters, including Rhodes et al. v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.; Rudy Rodriguez et al. v. Ford Motor Credit Company; Serrano et al. and Avalos et al. v. Cintas Corporation; Bowen et al. v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission et al.;and United States of America v. The State of North Carolina et al.

Dr. Thornton has served as an adjunct professor of quantitative methods and statistics at Florida State University. She has published in the Journal of Legal Economics and Journal of Forensic Economics, and she coauthored a chapter in the anthology Developments in Litigation Economics. She is a frequent presenter at industry liaison groups and client seminars.

Employment History

ERS Group
Managing director
2011 – 2015
Director
2004 – 2011
Vice president and senior research economist
1998 – 2004
Senior research economist
1997 – 1998
Research economist
1986 – 1997

Professional Affiliations

American Economic Association

National Association of Forensic Economics

North Florida Committee on Foreign Relations