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A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 2 2 1 I n the December 1990 issue of Advanced Materials & Processes, Judith A. Todd wrote “It is not often one is given the opportunity to recognize a distinguished scientist, who is not only a profession- al colleague and close personal friend, but is also one’s spouse. It is my privilege to provide you with insight into the man who will be the 1990-1991 President of ASM International.” We never imagined that 32 years later I would have the op- portunity and privilege to provide you with insight into the woman who is the 2021-2022 President of ASM Internation- al, Judith Todd Copley (known profes- sionally as Judy Todd), my wife. How did this happen? EARLY YEARS Judy was born in the town of Wakefield in the West Riding of York- shire England. She attended Wakefield Girls’ High School and was an out- standing student awarded a full schol- arship to attend Cambridge University. At Cambridge, she earned bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in materi- als science. As a graduate student, she already demonstrated broad interdisci- plinary curiosity and interests, choos- ing a dissertation topic in the field of archaeometry (application of materi- als science to the field of archaeology). This led to a year of field work in a re- mote part of Ethiopia near the borders of Uganda and Kenya, living with the Deemay people, who still practiced iron making technology that dated back to 300 B.C. at Meroe in the Sudan. Af- ter returning to England to complete her Ph.D., she undertook post-doctor- al studies in advanced fracture me- chanics at Imperial College, London, and then immigrated to the United States. Following a post-doctoral posi- tion at Stony Brook University, she was hired as the project leader of a Depart- ment of Energy, Advanced Research and Development Fossil Energy Materi- als Program, Design of Low Alloy Steels for Heavy Section Pressure Vessels at UC Berkeley. There she developed Cr-Mo-X pressure vessel steels compositional- ly modified to be through hardenable in 20-inch-thick sections. She acted as a liaison with numerous industries and with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. A 3Cr-1.5Mo-V steel was promoted by Cli- max Molybdenum for coal liquefaction/ gasification vessels. FAMILY AND VOLUNTEERISM I first met Judy when she joined the faculty of the Materials Science De- partment at the University of South- ern California (USC). We shared many interests, camping, folk dancing, trav- el, teaching materials science (almost completed a textbook), and ASM. We de- cided to get married if she survived a trek, long planned with female friends, around Annapurna in 1984. She did and we did. Marrying me took more courage than the trek because I came with sev- en children (five boys and two girls). All worked out well. In our wonderful 36 years together, we now have a child of our own, Amy, four grandchildren, one great grandchild, and another on the way. At USC, Judy and her research group developed the first quantitative mass transport theory for the interphase pre- cipitation reaction in high strength lowalloy steels. Inter- phase precipitation provides a single step strengthening mechanism for heavy sec- tion pressure vessel steels—a lower cost alternative to quenching and tempering. Publication of this research received the 1990 Vanadium Award from the British Insti- tute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, now IOM3. While at USC, Judy and I were both very active in the Los Angeles (LA) Chap- ter of ASM. Judy served on the Chapter Executive Committee from 1982 to 1988 and was chair in 1986-1987. She chaired the Quad-Chapter Luncheon 1988-1989 and was a West Coast Extension Liaison Committee member 1984-1989. We had many ASM friends in LA with whom we are still in touch, but in 1990 I became interested in pursuing academic admin- istration and we moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. We arrived at our new home in Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago, on Feb- ruary 14, 1990, Valentine’s Day, in the middle of an 11-inch snowstorm, initi- ating an exciting and eventful year. July 11 marked the birth of our daughter, 2021-2022 PRESIDENT OF ASM INTERNATIONAL JUDITH A. TODD Stephen M. Copley, FASM, 1990-1991 ASM President Four ASM International presidents and their spouses: from left, Bill and Marcia Koster, Bill and Ruth Quist, and Steve and Judy.