JUDITH JUDD

About Judith

•  Born in Colorado, worked in education and journalism in California, New York, Washington D.C., Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and India.

• Returned to Colorado in 1981 and graduated from the University of Denver, College of Law (Top 5%). Practiced law 20 years in the Denver metro area, was a partner in several large firms and started one of the state's first women-owned firms. Practice areas were commercial real estate, banking, and estate planning.
   
• Pubic policy passion is sustainable economic well-being for the state of Colorado and in this context education, transportation, and public safety net issues.
  
  
• Activities: Worked nearly full time on getting Arapahoe County to support Barack Obama. Strongly supported Betsy Markey, Ken Salazar and Bill Ritter. Served on the The Kempe Foundation board (one of the nation's leading institutions in the study and treatment of child abuse); the Young Americans Bank Board (foundation nationally recognized for its financial education programs for public school children); Rainbow House Board (foundation providing daycare for children of HIV /AIDS victims). Continue to serve on AAA of Colorado board where transportation issues are supreme on the board of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado Foundation which is in the forefront of the Prevention First initiative to educate about and prevent unintended pregnancies.
   
• Have willingness and ability to raise money for the Party, for candidates and for the House Majority Fund.
  
  
• Personal passions are husband of 44 years, Gary Judd, two adult children, twin grandchildren, extended family and beautiful Colorado.

Issues

• Overarching issue is economic wellbeing of the people of the state of Colorado generally and specifically the people of HD-3. With unemployment at 6.6 % as of March I I, 2008 (181,000 people in Colorado looking for jobs), this is the time for economic stimulus. Our constitutional and statutory structures (Gallagher, Tabor, Arveschoug-Bird (6%), and Amendment 23) are crippling our response. Meaningful progress is being made in rationalizing these constraints (Referendum C, the Supreme Court approval of the mill levy freeze, and SB 228). More must be done.
   
• Funding for education is part and parcel Colorado's economic wellbeing. Recent surveys show that Colorado continues to rank very low in educational support (34% for K-12 on a per capita basis, and 48'h for higher education). This cannot continue. Other states face the same problem, but they are finding funding sources as evidenced by our 48% ranking.
   
• Without a viable and integrated transportation system, we are economically stranded. Our roads and bridges are in poor (and in some cases dangerous) condition, we have not kept pace with growth and we have huge transportation problems to solve. Will we continue to levy a gas tax on a volume basis or does mileage make more sense? There are many issues to be decided.
   
• There is no role more important for government than the social safety net it provides. Our safety net is broken in many respects. For example, we are in violation of federal standards for processing food stamp applications and the growth in our child poverty rate exceeds most every other state. The federal stimulus funds allocated to Colorado (estimated at $2.84 billion) must be spent wisely and must be used to address our safety net problems.
   

I intend to play a strong and leading role addressing these issues for the people of HD-3.

Judith Judd, 3 Cantitoe Lane, Englewood, Colorado, 80113
(cell) 303-807-2806, (home) 303-771-0977, judithjudd@msn.com, texting ok, (fax) 303-771-0267

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