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Judiciary of Germany
Judiciary of Germany: the five-branch court system (Ordinary, Administrative, Finance, Labor, Social Courts) with federal apex courts, plus the separate Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, under the 1949 Basic Law.
Judiciary of India
Judiciary of India: single integrated court system under the Constitution, headed by the Supreme Court (established 26 January 1950), followed by 25 High Courts and district courts; collegium appointments, eCourts digitization, and NJDG case data.
Judiciary of Kenya
The Judiciary of Kenya is the court system exercising judicial power under the 2010 Constitution, headed by the Supreme Court and descended from British colonial courts of 1897.
Judiciary of Oklahoma
Judiciary of Oklahoma: the state court system under Article VII, with a nine-justice Supreme Court for civil appeals, a five-judge Court of Criminal Appeals, a twelve-judge Court of Civil Appeals, and 26 district courts with 75 judges, selected by merit nomination since 1967.
Judiciary of Russia
Judiciary of Russia: the court system of the Russian Federation, also called the Russian judicial system, comprising the Constitutional Court, the unified Supreme Court, courts of general jurisdiction, arbitrazh commercial courts, and justices of the peace.
Judiciary of the British West Indies
The judiciary of the British West Indies was the colonial court system serving the British Caribbean, from 17th-century settlements until independence, marked by shared regional courts.
Judit Agoston Mendelenyi
Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi (Mendelényiné Ágoston Judit, 1937–2013), Hungarian foil fencer; won women's team foil gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, three World Championship team medals, and later coached at BVSC.
Judit Lannert
Judit Lannert is a Hungarian education researcher and sociologist serving as Minister of Children and Education in the Tisza government, appointed in 2026 after decades studying Hungarian education.
Judit Polgár
Judit Polgár (Polgár Judit), Hungarian chess grandmaster born 1976; strongest female player ever, GM at 15 breaking Fischer's record, world No. 8, beat Kasparov in 2002, retired 2014.
Judit Temes
Judit Temes (Temes Judit, 1930–2013), Hungarian swimmer: Helsinki 1952 gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay (world record 4:24.4) and 100 m freestyle bronze; later pathologist and swimming administrator.
Judita
Judita is a biblical epic by the Split poet Marko Marulić, completed in 1501 and first printed in Venice in 1521, the first artistic epic in Croatian literature.
Judita Vaičiūnaitė
Judita Vaičiūnaitė (1937–2001) was a Lithuanian poet and translator known as one of the first real city poets, with Vilnius at the center of her work.
Judith A. Ferry
Judith A. Ferry is an American diagnostic hematopathologist who directs hematopathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, holds a Harvard pathology chair, wrote the textbook Extranodal Lymphomas, and helped shape the WHO lymphoma classification.
Judith A. Schwan
Judith A. Schwan (1925–1996) was an American photographic scientist who spent her 37-year career at Eastman Kodak, leading development of Kodachrome II and Kodacolor II.
Judith A. W. Rogers
Judith Ann Wilson Rogers, born 1939, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the D.C. Circuit since 2022, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994.
Judith and Holofernes
Judith and Holofernes is a bronze sculptural group by Donatello showing the biblical heroine raising her sword over the Assyrian general, one of his last works, completed in 1464.
Judith Anderson
Dame Judith Anderson (Frances Margaret Anderson, 1897-1992), Australian-born stage, film, and television actress; Broadway star of Medea and Mrs Danvers in Hitchcock's Rebecca; Oscar-nominated, two-time Emmy winner, first Australian-born Dame.
Judith Barsi
Judith Eva Barsi (1978-1988), American child actress, voice of Ducky in The Land Before Time and Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven; murdered with her mother by her father Jozsef Barsi in West Hills, Los Angeles, after a closed county child-welfare inquiry.
Judith beheading Holofernes
Judith beheading Holofernes: the climactic scene of the Book of Judith, also called Judith Slaying Holofernes, in which the Jewish heroine decapitates the Assyrian general; famously painted by Caravaggio (1599) and Artemisia Gentileschi (1612-13, c. 1620).
Judith Beheading Holofernes (Caravaggio)
Judith Beheading Holofernes (Giuditta e Oloferne), Caravaggio's oil on canvas of about 1599-1602 in Palazzo Barberini, Rome, shows Judith cutting the throat of the Assyrian general Holofernes; first owned by banker Ottavio Costa and widely copied by Caravaggisti.
Judith Belushi-Pisano
Judith (Judy) Belushi-Pisano, née Jacklin (1951-2024), American actress, producer, and writer; John Belushi's widow, Blues Brothers brand steward, author of Samurai Widow and Belushi: A Biography, co-producer of the 2020 documentary Belushi.
Judith Butler
Judith Butler (b. 1956, Cleveland) is an American philosopher at UC Berkeley, known for gender performativity from Gender Trouble (1990), later work on precarity and nonviolence, and Who's Afraid of Gender? (2024).
Judith C. Herrera
Judith C. Herrera, born 1954, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the District of New Mexico, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2004.
Judith Campisi
Judith Campisi (1948–2024) was an American cell biologist who made cellular senescence central to aging research, coined the term "senolytics", and was a scientific founder of Unity Biotechnology.
Judith Chalmers
Judith Chalmers (Judith Rosemary Locke Chalmers, 1935–2026), English broadcaster, host of ITV's Wish You Were Here...? (1974–2003, 500+ editions), also Woman's Hour, Come Dancing, Miss World; OBE 1994.
Judith Chapman
Judith Chapman (born Judith Shepard) is an American soap opera actress, best known as Gloria Bardwell on The Young and the Restless since 2005, with earlier roles on General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, Ryan's Hope, As the World Turns, and One Life to Live.
Judith Curry
Judith Curry is an American atmospheric scientist known for research on hurricanes and sea ice, and for her public critique of how the IPCC handles uncertainty.
Judith Driscoll
Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll is a materials scientist, Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge, known for nanoscale engineering of functional oxide thin films for energy applications.
Judith Durham
Judith Durham (1943–2022), Australian singer and lead vocalist of the Seekers; hits "I'll Never Find Another You" and "Georgy Girl"; first Australian group at UK and US No. 1.
Judith E. Levy
Judith E. Levy is a United States district judge in Michigan, appointed by Barack Obama in 2014 and known for presiding over the Flint water crisis litigation.