A BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ON BLAKES,JUDITH PROFESSIONAL CAREER AND SCHOLARSHIP

Judith Blake was born and raised primarily in New York City; she recei ved her BS degree magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1951 and her PhD in 1961. She had a remarkable and sustained record of scholar ly contributions, which can be divided into five interrelated periods differentiated by a combination of substantive emphases, methodologica l appraoches, and time periods. Blake was the founding Chair of the Gr oup in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, which bec ame the first demography department in the United States. She subseque ntly was the first incumbent of the Fred N. Bixby Chair in Population Policy at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a joint appointment in sociology. Blake served on n umerous university and professional committees and boards and was elec ted President of the Population Association of America in 1981, the as sociation's fiftieth anniversary. At the time of her death (1993), Bla ke was Editor of the Annual Review of Sociology. Judith Blake was a dy namic and creative researcher and teacher who left a strong legacy in her research, the students she taught, and the friends and colleagues she influenced.