Judith Hugh is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta. She has a B.Sc. (Honours, 1979) and Medical Degree (MDCM, 1983) from McGill University, a Pathology Residency (F.R.C.P, 1989) from the University of Calgary and a fellowship in Oncological Pathology (1990) from the University of Alberta. She was Director of the Immunopathology Laboratory, the Chair of the Alberta Pathology Breast Special Interest Group and the Director of the University of Alberta Hospital Laboratory before retiring from clinical service in 2021. Her initial research interest in breast cancer was in MUC1 where her lab was the first to describe the adhesive property of that mucin. After becoming the inaugural Lilian McCullough Chair in 2011, she became interested in the regressive effects of estrogen in ER+ breast cancer.