About jude

Jude is a sixties baby, making her mid-life! The youngest of four, and the only girl, she was brought up in South Auckland, attended Epsom Girls’ Grammar and then went on to Manukau Technical Institute. Here she trained as a Registered New Zealand Comprehensive Nurse. (RNZcpN), and enjoyed working in National Womens’ postnatal wards (with the intention of becoming a midwife) before she got ‘sidetracked’ into the world of media and communications, where she has remained.

The world of health and well-being has never left her. She has started working towards a post graduate degree in public health, as this is an area of passion she has concentrated on in a media sense, and now wants to delve into the academic side of it. Fundamentally though she has a love of helping people and is a solutions person.

Jude has been actively involved in all the school communities her three children have been in. In their primary years, she served two terms on the school Board of Trustees, one as Chair. At a practical level for the secondary schools she helped by offering to produce video content to use in their leadership programmes, event managed fundraising events and produced filmed content about prominent community members to archive. Jude also enjoyed mentoring senior school media studies students, helping them make filmed content for fundraisers, and ensuring their work got seen by an audience.

Married to Graeme since 1992 and with three children, now all young adults, she is a family girl at heart. With the fourth Weimaraner dog in tow, she is a dog (and cat) lover too. She loves to travel and with family living overseas, that’s a very good reason to get on a plane if circumstances permit.