Judy started at The Gazette in 1982 as a reporter in the Amsterdam bureau and has, over the years, worked in the Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa and Mechanicville bureaus. Eventually, she moved to the Schenectady office, where she has at various times worked as day city editor, assistant city editor, an arts reporter and editor and a reporter assigned to the Sunday paper. She grew up in Washington County, where she still lives, and graduated from the University at Albany in 1978 with a degree in English literature.