Judith (Judy) Green (born 1943) is an American logician and historian of mathematics who studies

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. She is a founding member of the

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; she has also served as its vice president, and as the vice president of the

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Education and career

Green earned her bachelor's degree at

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. She completed a master's degree at

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, and a Ph.D. at the

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. Her dissertation, supervised by Carol Karp and finished in 1972, was ''Consistency Properties for Uncountable Finite-Quantifier Languages''. Green was elected an

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Member at Large in 1975 and served for three years until 1977. She belonged to the faculty of

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before moving to Marymount University in 1989. After retiring from Marymount in 2007, she became a volunteer at the

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Book

With Jeanne LaDuke, she wrote '' Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s'' (

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and

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, 2009). This was a biographical study of the first women in the U.S. to earn doctorates in mathematics.

Recognition

She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the

References

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