Cristle Collins Judd

Judd is originally from Texas, and earned her bachelor's degree in music performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. She earned her master's degree and PhD from King's College London, with a dissertation on the 16th-century Italian composer and theorist Gioseffo Zarlino.

Judd began her career as an academic at the University of Melbourne, and later held a role at the University of Exeter. In 1993, Judd became a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. She later served as dean for academic affairs and professor of music at Bowdoin College. Prior to taking office as president of Sarah Lawrence, Judd worked at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she was a senior program officer for Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.