Judith Clark

Judith Alice "Judy" Clark (born November 23, 1949) is an American convicted of felony murder for her involvement in the Brink's robbery of 1981 in Nanuet, New York. In that incident the robbers murdered one Brinks guard, another was seriously wounded and two Nyack, NY police officers were also killed. During the 1960s and 1970s she was a radical political activist, and became a member of the Weather Underground Organization and participated in much of its political agitation and criminal activities. Still pursued by police after the WUO's dissolution in the mid-1970s, Clark continued her course independently through the rest of the decade, working frequently the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. She was sentenced to the maximum penalty allowed by law, and is currently serving a sentence of 75-years-to-life at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York. In December 2016, Clark's sentence was commuted to 35 years to life. She was denied parole in April, 2017 and she is next eligible for parole in 2019.

Clark was born on November 23, 1949. She grew up in a Jewish family with her older brother and parents, Ruth Clark and Joe Clark. Her parents were members of the American Communist Party for many years. As an infant, Clark lived in the Soviet Union from 1950 to 1953. After the family returned home to the U.S., her parents withdrew from the Communist Party, disillusioned with the Soviet Union.

Judith Clark became active in the Civil Rights Movement at the age of 14 when she was in junior high school. She participated in the New York City-wide boycott led by the African American community in Brooklyn calling for equality in education. Throughout high school she was a member of Student CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality). She went to the University of Chicago where she joined Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and helped to found the Women's Radical Action Project, one of the first organizations of the early women's liberation movement.

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