Judy
Markey
Judy
Markey has been a broadcaster, novelist, and journalist.
Since
1989 she and Kathy O’Malley have co-hosted Chicago's top-rated
midday program, "The Kathy & Judy Show” on WGN
Radio 720. The show can be heard in over ten states by more than
a half million listeners each week.
For
sixteen years Judy chronicled the insanities of contemporary life
in her syndicated column for Chicago Sun-Times. Her first
novel, The Daddy Clock, published in 1998 by Bantam Books,
was immediately optioned by Touchstone Pictures, and has been
translated into five languages. Her second novel, Just Trust
Me, was released by Mira Books in August 2004.
Judy's
first two books -- collections of her syndicated columns -- were
How To Survive Your High School Reunion and Other Mid-Life
Crises, and You Only Get Married For The First Time Once.
In
2004 Crain’s Chicago Business named Kathy and Judy
among “Chicago’s One Hundred Most Influential Women”.
In March 2005, she and Kathy were named two of the “Top
One Hundred Talk Show Hosts” in the country by Talkers
Magazine. In April 2005 she was inducted into Northwestern University’s
Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement. Kathy and Judy
received the nationally recognized Gracie Award for “Outstanding
Talk Show Radio” in 2006.
Judy
has two adult children, two adult stepchildren, and is married
to Tom Collinger, who is the Associate Dean of Medill at Northwestern
University.
