2009 Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Judy Jeroy is an EGA certified teacher of crewel embroidery and canvas embroidery as well as a Certified Teacher Graduate and a Certified Needlework Judge. She has her Master Craftsman in Crewel and in Canvas and has served on the faculty of numerous national and region seminars. Judy has served as president of Tidewater Virginia Chapter in the Mid-Atlantic Region twice, 1980 and 1998. She has been Region Director of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Vice President of Regions 1987-89. President of EGA 1991-93, Embroidery Editor of Needle Arts Magazine 1994-97, Seminar ’98 Chairman, Seminar ’06 Faculty Dean. She is currently chairman of the Crewel Master Craftsman Program and Administrator of Education Programs for EGA. Judy is the author of Creative Crewel Embroidery, published by Lark Books in 1998 and was one of the original members of Fiber Forum in 1992. She is married with two daughters and three grandchildren.