Join WWN for a tea honoring the achievements of women staff, volunteers, and benefactors in the history of the university and the community.
Judith Ann Schiff, Judy, is the Chief Research Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library and the New Haven City Historian. She received a B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. in History from Columbia University, and M.S. in Information and Library Science from Southern Connecticut State University. Best known to Yale alumni as the author of the “Old Yale” feature in the Yale Alumni Magazine. A major focus of her research is on the history of women and diversity in the Yale-New Haven community. In recognition of her work she received the Edward A. Bouchet Leadership Award in Minority Graduate Education at Yale and the Edward Bouchet Legacy Award at Howard University. She was also honored at Yale with an Ivy Award for contributing to “increased understanding and cooperation between Yale and the City of New Haven” and appointed Chief Marshal of the 2016 Yale Commencement Procession.
Judy has served as president of the New Haven League of Women Voters and the Yale University Women’s Organization; as a founder and as president of New England Archivists and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven; co-founder of the Ethnic Heritage Center of New Haven, and currently serves on the boards of the National Historic Landmark Grove Street Cemetery and the New Haven Museum. She especially enjoys helping to plan cultural celebrations of historic Yale/New Haven events and is working on plans to celebrate milestone anniversaries of the achievements of women at Yale and the community.
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