Judy Nilsen –

After graduation from PAHS and completing my nursing education at DePaul Hospital School of Nursing and becoming a RN, I married Vaden "Buck" Cudworth.  Over the next few years we became parents of two children - Alan and Wendy. Alan raises goats and Wendy is a CPA.  Employment followed as a Virginia Department of Public Health Nurse.  In 1979 I became a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, completing a course of study at VCU Medical College of Virginia. I continued to practice at the Norfolk Health Department and later retired from the Virginia Beach Health Department. During this time I was also adjunct faculty at Old Dominion University for the Nurse Practitioner Program. 

Being empty nesters, we moved to Hertford, North Carolina, to our vacation and weekend home, where we watch the tide change and the grass grow. Still having the desire to be involved with the pediatric population, I became clinical director and clinician of four school-based clinics in Pasquotank County. It did not get any better than living where we wanted to live and working where I wanted to work and being involved with the teenage population. We also live close enough to our two granddaughters to spend time with then. Gradually I became a volunteer in Hertford in the Master Gardner program, Historic Hertford Design committee. the historic Newbold-White House kitchen garden, and other projects.  Buck and I enjoy traveling, especially cruising, having been to most of the Caribbean Islands, Bermuda, Canada, England, Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany, and looking forward to Alaska in 2010