Judy Green (mathematician)

Judith (Judy) Green (born 1943)^[1] is an American logician and historian of mathematics who studies women in mathematics.^[2] She is a founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics;^[3][4] she has also served as its vice president, and as the vice president of the American Association of University Professors.^[2]

Judy Green
Born	1943 (1943)
Academic background
Education	Cornell University, Yale University
Alma mater	University of Maryland, College Park
Thesis	Consistency Properties for Uncountable Finite-Quantifier Languages (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Carol Karp
Academic work
Discipline	Mathematics
Institutions	Rutgers University, Marymount University
Main interests	Women in mathematics
Notable works	Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s

Education and career

Green earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University. She completed a master's degree at Yale University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park.^[2] Her dissertation, supervised by Carol Karp and finished in 1972, was Consistency Properties for Uncountable Finite-Quantifier Languages.^[5]

Green was elected an AMS Member at Large in 1975 and served for three years until 1977.^[6] She belonged to the faculty of Rutgers University before moving to Marymount University in 1989. After retiring from Marymount in 2007, she became a volunteer at the National Museum of American History.^[2]

Book

With Jeanne LaDuke, she wrote Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s (American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society, 2009). This was a biographical study of the first women in the U.S. to earn doctorates in mathematics.^[7]

Recognition

She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.^[8]