Walter Stephen Judd

Walter S. Judd (born 1951) is an American botanist and taxonomist, and distinguished professor in the Department of Botany, University of Florida since 2009.^[1] Judd was originally born in Fairbanks, Alaska until his family relocated to Shiawassee CO, Michigan. Due to the rural setting, it inspired him to study natural history, botany, plant taxonomy and systematics, and phylogenetics.^[2]

Judd attended Michigan State University (B.S. 1973, M.S. 1974) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1978). He became an assistant professor in the Department of Botany at the University of Florida (1978–1983), associate professor (1983–1991) and professor in 1991. He was president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists 2000–2001.^[1] Judd has earned many awards throughout his career, including the Asa Gray Award in 2011.^[3]

Professor Judd has been a contributor to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group and produced his own modification of this in 1999, the Judd system.

• American Society of Plant Taxonomists: Asa Gray Award 2011^[4]
• National Museum of Natural History: José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany 2012.^[5]

• Judd, Walter S. (1999–2008). Plant systematics: a phylogenetic approach. 3rd ed. Sinauer Associates. ISBN 0-87893-407-3. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
• Judd, Walter S.& Graham A. (2017). Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190276317. (see Illustrating Tolkien)

• JSTOR: Global Plants
• Harvard Botanist Index