Judy has lived in San Clemente for 12 years, and southern California for 22 years. She grew up in Madison, WI and lived in Minnesota and Illinois.

 

She is a manager for a software development company, and has 33 years of business experience.

She is married to Bill Walter, a mechanical engineer at Fluor Corp.

 

After college she taught math in Belize with the Peace Corps, inspired by John Kennedy.

 

She has an MBA in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago, a BA in math from Ripon College of Ripon, WI.

 

She's been an active, political volunteer and organizer in Orange County for the past five years.

 

She's always been involved, especially with education, youth, technology and the environment. She initiated and lead her company's Boys and Girls Club computer tutoring program.

 

She also spent a vacation saving the leatherback turtles in an Earthwatch project.

Judy joined the Peace Corps after college to assist developing nations catch up in math and science, teaching math. Now, it looks like we need the help! California needs to provide quality education to support everyone's opportunity to thrive in the 21st century.

 

Judy and her husband Bill Walter moved to San Clemente 13 years ago and enjoy the wonderful weather, and easy access to the ocean. We need to keep the beauty of our region for us to enjoy, for our tourism and for future generations. She will support state and regional efforts for clean air, clean water, and beautiful beaches/parks. She will save our state and local parks, beaches and open spaces for future generations

Reduce oil dependency through funding clean technologies and public transportation. Foster public-private/business-government partnerships to solve educational, environmental, infrastructure, economic and more issues. Promote the creation of new green collar jobs for the future solutions, working with educational institutions and environmental organizations on technologies of the future.