11 Facts About Judie Brown

Judith A Brown was born on March 4,1944 and is the president and co-founder of American Life League, the oldest Catholic grassroots anti-abortion organization in the United States.

Judie Brown's father abandoned his family a year and a half later, leaving her mother and her younger sister Sheila, who had just been born, to fend for themselves.

Judie Brown's grandparents took them in and were influential in molding her character and resolve, and her grandparents insured that she received the proper Catholic education and paid for her to attend St Mary's Academy in Inglewood, California, an all-girls Catholic School run by the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet.

Judie Brown was later transferred by Kmart Seattle, where she met a young man named Paul Judie Brown who was interviewing for a retail job with Kmart.

Judie Limbourne and Paul Brown were eventually married on December 30,1967, in the same church in Hawthorne, California where Judie had received her First Holy Communion.

In 1970, Judie Brown began handing out anti-abortion literature at the request of her parish priest, and over the next several years, she became more and more involved in the anti-abortion movement.

Judie Brown's third child Christina Lee was born on June 19,1974, and eight months later the Brown family moved with Kmart again, from Georgia to Kannopolis, North Carolina, and later to Steubenville, Ohio.

Judie Brown reportedly stated in 1981 that the NRLC had been "trying to destroy my husband" by absorbing his Life Amendment Political Action Committee.

The American Life Lobby that had begun in the basement of the Judie Brown's residence had by September 1981 ALL moved into regular office space and earned legitimate notice on Capitol Hill during October of that year when ALL played a positive role in defeating the Hatch Amendments pertaining to the Human Life Amendment legislative proposals.

Judie Brown has written 12 books, including an autobiography entitled Not My Will but Thine, Saving Those Damned Catholics: A Defense of Catholic Teaching, and her most recent The Broken Path: How Catholic Bishops Got Lost in the Weeds of American Politics.

In 2013, Judie Brown wrote a short booklet on Pope Francis, Pope Francis: Portrait of Holiness.