American botanist and taxonomist (born 1951).
Walter S. Judd (born 1951) was an American botanist and taxonomist, and distinguished professor in the Department of Botany, University of Florida beginning in 2009. Judd was born in Fairbanks, Alaska; his family relocated to Shiawassee CO, Michigan. Due to the rural setting, it inspired him to study natural history, botany, plant taxonomy and systematics, and phylogenetics.