About Judy Olson Duhamel
Judy Olson Duhamel (born Judith Mary Reedy; June 24, 1939) is an American politician and educator. She served in the South Dakota State Senate representing Pennington County from 1988 to 1992 and later served as chair of the South Dakota Democratic Party. She served the Rapid City School District for eighteen years, overseeing community engagement and public information programs. She was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 2014. == Early life and education == Judith Mary Reedy was born on June 24, 1939, the only child of J. Marvin Reedy and Camille Murphy. Her father was of Irish descent. The family moved to Rapid City, South Dakota when she was three years old. She graduated from Rapid City Central High School in 1957 and was named sophomore class president. She attended the University of Arizona, initially on a journalism scholarship, but later switched her focus to education, and majored in speech and English in education. In 1961, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and moved to Minneapolis to begin teaching, where she married her first husband, Bob Olson.
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