Biography for

Judy (Wilson) Black

After graduation, Judy attended Baldwin Wallace College and Fairview Park School of Nursing. She graduated with her RN in 1964 and went to work at Deaconess Hospital. She married Tom Black ('58) and had three daughters. They moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1968 and eventually settled in Ventura, California. Judy has worked as an RN ever since graduation in a variety of hospital areas. Eventually, she went back to school and got a Bachelor's of Health Science and Health Education and a teaching credential.

In 1990, Tom took a position in the administration of Modesto City Schools in Central California and she was offered the opportunity to start a Licensed Vocational Nursing School in Turlock, California, where she served as the director for ten years until Tom retired in 2000. They moved back to Ventura where they now had three grandchildren and a step grandson. For three years they lived six months in the UK and six months in Ventura because their youngest daughter had married a man from Wales and was living there. In 2003, Tom was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and they had to come home. They continued to travel and make the most of his times between chemo and radiation treatments. When he died in 2005, Judy decided to go back to work. She is currently working two days a week for Ventura County Public Health as the Perinatal Hepatitis B coordinator.

She continues to travel with friends. She has been to China, is going to Turkey in the spring, and is taking her granddaughter to England for her Eighth Grade graduation. She likes to work out and swim and belongs to two book clubs. She also keeps busy with shopping, her favorite sport, and enjoying her grandchildren.

2016 Update.  Judy retired from nursing in 2014 and moved to Pacifica California to live with her daughter, Kelley and her husband.  She continues to travel with them and with her friends. Her first great grandchild will be born in November, 2016. Judy keeps busy volunteering in the kindergarten at the school where her son-in-law teaches.