Speaker 12/19/22- Michelle Davis-Judd National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Michelle Davis-Judd grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa. She attended West Virginia University, graduating with a B.S. in Science Education. Following university, she taught middle school and high school science in Washington, D.C. While in Washington, she was selected as a NASA Fellow and completed a summer internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. That internship led to full-time employment. Michelle worked as an Aerospace Education Specialist at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (now renamed Armstrong Flight Research Center) located on Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert of California. In that capacity she conducted teacher workshops and student assemblies in CA, AZ, NV, NM, and HI. Furthering her career, she moved into the role of project manager of K-12 Education Programs in the same region. She managed staff and a portfolio of NASA’s national education programs. Some highlights include hosting multiple downlink events between ISS astronauts and a live audience, flying experiments in the Zero-G “vomit Commit”, developing programs for schools to fly experiments on aircraft and sounding rockets, and worked as a team member to select three teacher astronauts (of which two would later fly into space). After 13 years as a public representative for NASA, Michelle left to raise her family. She is a private pilot, breast cancer survivor and currently works as a health coach. Her husband Howard Judd is a retired Air Force Test Pilot and currently works as an Experimental Test Pilot at Gulfstream Aerospace, in Savannah. Michelle, Howard and their three daughters moved to Bluffton in 2020. |
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