Judith C. Russell has served as the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Florida since 2007. She was the Managing Director, Information Dissemination and Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), now the Government Publishing Office, from 2003-2007. She served as Deputy Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) from 1998-2003 and as director of the Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Services and the Federal Depository Library Program at GPO from 1991-1997.
Prior to that, she worked for over ten years in the information industry, doing marketing and product development as well as serving as a government-industry liaison. She also worked for over 10 years in special libraries.
In 2017, Russell received the NFAIS Miles Conrad Award, long considered the information community’s premier annual honor for achievement in fostering the growth of information services, in recognition of her significant achievements in librarianship and for her leadership in information services throughout a career spanning academia, government, the non-profit and private sectors.
Russell holds a Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.