Judith Kritzmire is a professor of Music Education at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she served 16 years as Department Head, returning to faculty in 2006 to assume various duties including on-site Director of the university's Study in England Programme, Director of Graduate Studies in Music, Chair of the UMD Graduate Council, and NASM Institutional Representative. Her publications on music administration and leadership, and aesthetic philosophy, have appeared in the International Journal of Music Education, Arts Education Policy Review, General Music Today, Journal of Research in Music Education, and others. She has been a frequent contributor to the CMS Newsletter and serves on the Committee for Administration and Leadership. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, a Master's degrees from Central Michigan University and the doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.