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Judith Ann Smith graduated from Hebert High School in 1975 and from Lamar University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has been a Registered Nurse for the last 45 years. In 2016, she graduated from the Lord’s Outreach School of Ministry with a Doctorate in Theology.
Judith started working for the City of Port Arthur in the Health Department in1983 as a staff nurse working in the Immunization and STD (Adult Health Services) clinics. In 1993, she became the Nurse Supervisor for the TB (Tuberculosis) clinic under the Texas Department of Health and worked in this program for twelve years in the health department. In 2005, she became the Assistant Health Director and continued providing TB services to residents in the community who were impacted by TB disease and Latent TB infection. In 2013, she was appointed Director of Health Services and currently serves in this position. Judith oversees fourteen 14 divisions within the health department and provides public health services to South Jefferson County and surrounding cities.
The Port Arthur Health Department nurses led the team and support staff and assisted the County in starting the first COVID-19 mass testing at the Jack Brooks Airport in March 2020. In February 2021, the COVID-19 mass vaccination HUB was set up at the Bob Bowers Civic Center and thousands of vaccines were administered.
Judith serves on the boards for the Julie Rogers Gift of Life and the YMCA. She is a member of the Southeast Texas Black Nurses Association, the National Black Nurses Association, and is a Rotarian. She is an ordained Minister and teaches Christian Doctrine at the Ruach School of Theology.
Judith has been a recipient of the “Save Our Children” Difference Maker award (2020-2021), the Rotary “Presidential Award” (2021), the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas “Community Builder Award” for community service (2021), and the Arthur Stilwell Award for leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021). In 2021, Judith was a Newsmaker of the Year finalist and 2023 she was honored as a Pioneering Woman.
Judith has been married to Dallas Joseph Smith Jr. for the last 41 years and is the mother of two adult children, Dallas III and wife (Diante), Jalyn Junell and husband (Marcus), and the grandmother of two granddaughters and one grandson.
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