Judith Johnson Lee

Judith Johnson Lee, former journalist and congressional press aide, spent much of her life on military bases in the US and Europe as a military wife, an instructor in military writing, and an editor of military regulations. In Germany she was editor in chief of a militaryissued Guide to TV distributed across the continent.Judith's doctoral degree in women's studies in military ethics, from Claremont (CA) Graduate University, led to her participation in the International Society of Military Ethics. She holds master's degrees from Claremont, Niagara University, Villanova University (on a Shubert Foundation Playwriting Fellowship), and from the Catholic University of Louvain, in Belgium, where she set up a center for women's studies in theology.Judith coauthored and edited Holy Woman, Holy Blood, where she wrote on the military hero's sacrificial shedding of blood. Ode to a Brass God is her first novel. She resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with her daughter, Rita.