Chair, Special Committee on Educational Policy, 1988–89
Chair, National Legal Resources Committee, 1990–91
AALL Representative to the Library of Congress, 1990–91
Co-Chair and Editor, AALL Planning Session on Training the Next Generation of Foreign and International Law Librarians, 1991–93
Professional Honors and Awards
Named one of Fastcase’s Top 50 Innovators in Law, 2011
Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship, 2013
Chicago Association of Law Libraries Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Award, 2013
AALL Hall of Fame, Inductee, 2013
Judith M. Wright Fellowship, University of Chicago Law School, 2014 (established “in recognition of Judith’s forty-plus years of service to the University and her legacy as a mentor to generations of law librarians”)
Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, 2016
Selected Publications by the Inductee
Training the Next Generation of Foreign and International Law Librarians: Issue Papers, Summary, Action Plan, Judith Wright, ed. Littleton, Colo.: Fred B. Rothman, 1992. (AALL Occasional Papers Series No. 12)
“Quality—A Moving Target,” Syllabus (ABA Section of Legal Educ. & Admissions to the Bar) 19 (Dec. 1988): 7.
“Memorial: Jane Strable (1918–2002),” Law Library Journal 95 (2003): 143–44.
“Adolf Sprudzs: In Memoriam,” Law Library Journal 95 (2003): 324–25.
“Law Library Budgets in Hard Times,” Law Library Journal 103 (2011): 91–111 (with Taylor Fitchett, James Hambleton, Penny Hazelton, and Anne Klinefelter).
Frank G. Houdek, “Introducing the Hall of Fame Class of 2013: AALL Honors Brecht, Spinelli, Todd, and Wright,” AALL Spectrum 17 (June 2013): 28–29.
Pauline M. Aranas, “Gallagher Award Celebrates Outstanding Achievement: S. Blair Kauffman and Judith M. Wright Recognized for Service to the Profession,”; AALL Spectrum 20 (May/June 2016): 36–38.
Professional Positions
School Librarian, Jacksonville, Fla., 1966–67
American Red Cross Recreational Worker, Vietnam, 1967–68
Documents/Reference Librarian, University of Chicago Law Library, 1970–74
Reference Librarian, University of Chicago Law Library, 1974–77
Lecturer, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1977–89
Associate Dean of Library and Information Services and Lecturer in Law, D’Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago, 1980–2013
Education
B.S., University of Memphis, 1966
M.A., Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, 1971
J.D., DePaul University School of Law, 1980
Selected Professional Activities and Achievements (outside AALL)
Admitted to the practice of Law, Illinois, 1980
Co-Founder and Member, Chicago Legal Academic System, 1983–2013
Westlaw Advisory Board, 1984–87
Member, ABA Committee on Facilities of the Law Library of Congress, 1985–93
