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Judy
McFadden, a coal miner’s daughter born and raised in southwestern
Pennsylvania, has experienced a special connection with animals,
especially dogs, throughout her life. She is a people person
because of the diversity that existed in the coal mining
community. Italians, Russians, Greeks, Poles, Swiss and
Czechoslovakians, and African-Americans lived and relied on each other
in her neighborhood.
Her love of travel began
exploring the Pennsylvania woods. Judy lived in Germany for two
years and learned to cook sauerkraut the German way; visited France,
toured Paris, and the palaces at Fontainebleau and Versailles; saw
rainbow-colored fields of tulips in Holland; traveled to Costa Rica and
gazed into an active, bubbling volcano; spent three days in the Costa
Rican jungle where howler monkeys swung in the trees and crocodiles
sunned on river banks. She vacationed in Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, and Canada. Judy has visited many of the major cities in
the United States.
As a certified Therapy Dogs
International volunteer and a member of K-9 Therapists of Las Vegas,
Judy and her Scottish terrier, McDuff, appeared on KVBC-TV Channel 3
News in Las Vegas, and received front page newspaper coverage in the
Anthem View in Henderson, Nevada, in recognition of McDuff’s
outstanding therapy dog work.
She has been
employed as a legal secretary, sales representative, custodian of
records for The Ohio State University Hospital, and public inquiries
assistant on the National Cancer Institute 800-4-CANCER telephone
line. She resigned her position as courtroom clerk in the Eighth
Judicial District Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas,
Nevada, to pursue a writing career.
Judy is a member of the Henderson Writers Group, sponsor of
the annual Las Vegas Writer’s Conference, and Toastmasters
International. She has spoken to audiences with McDuff to
promote awareness of the benefits of therapy dogs and animal
assisted reading programs like Therapy Dogs International and
Reading with Rover.
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