Robert A. Judas, Colonel USAF, Retired
Military Career. After graduation from pilot training, I went to Craig AFB, AL as a T-37 Instructor Pilot. Subsequent assignments included the USAF Academy as an athletic instructor and soccer coach; F-4 at Keflavik, Iceland; F-4/F-15 at Elmendorf AFB, AK; TAC staff at Langley AFB, VA (DCS Requirements); F-15 again at Eglin AFB, FL; PACAF staff at Hickam AFB, HI (DCS Requirements and DCS Personnel); and operational test staff at Arnold AFB, TN. I retired from active duty as a Colonel, at Arnold AFB in July 1994, and joined my dad on his horse farm in Wartrace, TN.
Family career. I am married to the former Suzanne Meyer, a high school classmate and sweetheart. We reconnected at a high school reunion, just after I retired from active duty with the Air Force. We married in 1995, and I subsequently moved from Tennessee to Atlantic Beach, FL, where Suzanne was living and working as a lawyer and partner in a law firm in nearby Jacksonville. We have both been previously married, and have children scattered across the south. Suzanne’s son Harry is single, and a bank manager in Atlanta. My daughter Kim is single, with a 12 year old daughter in Oklahoma City. My stepdaughter Carly is married, with a 2 year old son, and teaches here in Jacksonville. And my son Brian is single, and works here in Jacksonville also.
Civilian Career. Sort of. After retirement from the USAF, I stayed on the farm raising horses and cattle, for a much shorter time than expected. After moving to Florida, I briefly tried teaching high school math, then hired on with Merrill Lynch in the financial services career field. Initially as a 401k representative, then financial advisor. I left Merrill Lynch in 2004, hired then by a local credit union in the same financial advisor capacity. I just recently retired from that position in July this year.
First of the Finest 