Judy McBride

Judy joined the Hartford Foundation in 2006. In her role as director of grants and partnership investments from 2017 to 2020, she supported the development of grantmaking policy for the Foundation’s responsive and strategic outcome grants and oversaw the review of grant requests with the team of community investment officers. In her current role as director of strategic partnership investments, Judy focuses on developing grantmaking policy, supporting the Foundation’s public policy work, and building effective private/public partnerships to achieve collective impact on shared strategic interests. Previously, Judy served as vice president of program investments for YouthBuild USA and as deputy director of administration for the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She has also served as senior advisor to the assistant attorney general at the U.S Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, assistant for governmental relations at the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Department, and a legislative assistant at the District of Columbia City Council. Her experience also includes directing the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Standards Project, its Gun Violence Project, and working with state courts to implement the ABA Guidelines for the Evaluation of Judicial Performance. Judy earned her master’s degree in developmental psychology from George Washington University, her Juris Doctorate from the Georgetown Law Center, and her bachelor’s degree in English and psychology from Wellesley College.