![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Biography:Best known for her lead billing on the syndicated courtroom reality series Judge Judy, acerbic, by-the-throat justice Judith Sheindlin was born Judith Blum into a Brooklyn family, the daughter of dentist Murry Blum and his office manager-cum-wife, Ethel Blum. Judy graduated from American University, then decided to pursue her law degree and earned it from New York Law School, graduating from that institution in 1965. In subsequent years, she successfully balanced a career as a family-court prosecutor with the demands of raising two children and enduring a difficult marriage; that union, to attorney Ronald Levy, ended in divorce in 1976. Reportedly a mere three weeks later, Judy met her second husband, Justice Jerry Sheindlin (whom she married in 1978), and the two "pooled" their children into a combined residence. By 1982, Judy had worked her way into a position as prosecutor in New York City family... Full Biography
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