Barbara Judge, Who Shattered Many Glass Ceilings, Dies at 73

When she was 19 she married a fellow student at New York University School of Law, Theodore J. Kozloff. They divorced in 1975.

In 1979 she married Allen L. Thomas, who like her was a lawyer; they had a son, Lloyd, in 1983. The marriage ended in 2001. In 2002 she married Paul Judge, a British entrepreneur, philanthropist and fund-raiser for the Conservative Party. He died in 2017.

In addition to her son, she is survived by her mother; her sister, Nancy Singer; her brother, Michael; and a granddaughter.

Ms. Judge had not always wanted to be a lawyer.

“I wanted to act when I was young,” she said in a 2005 interview with the S.E.C. Historical Society. “My father had lost all his money, and my mother wasn’t having any starving actresses, and she said, ‘If you want to act you can act in front of the jury.’”

She qualified as a lawyer in 1969 and worked as a corporate lawyer in the city before joining the S.E.C.

At the commission, she pressed for the internationalization of stock markets, traveling to Japan to seek access for American investment banks to the Tokyo Stock Exchange — an initiative she listed among her principal professional achievements.

“Some years ago I was on the shortlist to be on the board of the Bank of England. It was in the 1990s,” she told The Manchester Evening News, a British newspaper, in 2015. “In the final interview they asked me what the best thing I ever did was.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/business/barbara-judge-dead.html