Judie Brown
| Judie Brown | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Judith Ann Brown née Limbourne March 4, 1944 Los Angeles, California |
| Residence | Indio, California |
| Nationality | USA |
| Alma mater |
St. Mary's Academy Inglewood, California El Camino Junior College Alondra Park; A.A., 1963 University of California Los Angeles, California B.S., 1965 |
| Occupation | president of 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization author |
| Employer | American Life League 1991 - formerly American Life Lobby 1976-1991 National Right to Life Committee, 1976 - 1979 Kmart, 1965 - 1968 Kresge's |
| Organization | Human Life International Priests for Life Pro Life Action League |
| Opponent(s) | Planned Parenthood |
| Board member of |
Pontifical Academy for Life Catholic Scholars for Social Justice Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Children of God for Life |
| Spouse(s) | Paul A. Brown December 30, 1967 - |
| Children | Hugh Richard Brown III Catherine Marie Brown Christina "Christy" Lee Brown |
| Parent(s) | Chester Limbourne, stepfather |
| Awards | Elected Daily Catholic #49 Top 100 Catholics of Century |
| Website | all |
Judith "Judie" A. Brown is the president and cofounder of American Life League, the oldest Catholic grassroots pro-life organization in the United States.
Judith Ann Limbourne Brown was born in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 1944. Her father abandoned his family a year and a half later, leaving her mother and her younger sister Sheila, who had just been born, to fend for themselves. Brown's mother had remarried during 1952 to Chester Limbourne when she was six years old. Judie's grandparents took them in and were very influential in molding her character and resolve and her grandparents insured that she received the proper Catholic education and then paid for her to attend the Catholic all-girls St. Mary's Academy in Inglewood by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.
After graduating St. Mary's Academy in 1962, Brown worked at Kresge's as a bookkeeper while attending El Camino Junior College, where she earned an Associated Arts degree during 1963 and completed a bachelor's degree program at UCLA two years later.
By the time she turned 21, Browne was an office manager for the Kmart western region. Brown was later transferred by Kmart Seattle, where she met a young man named Paul Brown who was interviewing for a retail job with Kmart. Judie Limbourne and Paul Brown were eventually married on December 30, 1967 in the same church in Hawthorne, California where Judie had received her First Holy Communion. Both of the Browns had worked for K-Mart at this time when she opted to stay home to begin a family. Their first child was Hugh Richard III born on November 23, 1968, followed by Catherine Marie.
In 1970, Brown began handing out pro-life literature at the request of her parish priest, and over the next several years, she became more and more involved in the pro-life movement. As her husband had been transferred by Kmart during 1973 to Savannah, Georgia, Brown got involved with helping organizers of the Georgia Right to Life stuff envelopes and mail out anti-abortion materials following the U.S. Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision. Her third child Christina Lee was born on June 19, 1973 and eight months later the Brown family moved with Kmart again, from Georgia to Kannopolis, North Carolina and later to Steubenville, Ohio.
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