College of Nursing Recipients
Distinguished Alumna in Service to Nursing Award
JUDITH GOESSELE RUSSELL, NURS '64
Minocqua, Wis.
In everything she has done since graduation 鈥� from serving as a labor and delivery nurse to a corporate to a parish nurse 鈥� Judy has remembered one thing: 鈥淚 am a Marquette nurse, and I am proud of it.鈥�
She proudly cared for thousands during her 49-year career. She was a clinical instructor in labor and delivery at Loyola University Chicago and an L/D nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee and St. Catherine鈥檚 in Kenosha, Wis.
Judy was a certified occupational health nurse for CF Ind. and Bank One in Chicago. In Arlington Heights, Ill., she was a village community health nurse.
鈥淣ursing is the best choice I made initially and continues to be so throughout my life,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 enjoy using every aspect of the profession with my family, friends and community.鈥�
And there hasn鈥檛 been a time when Judy wasn鈥檛 actively supplementing her professional life with volunteer work. Since moving to Minocqua, Wis., Judy has been active with a Hospice House and the food pantry. She is a board member of the Howard Young Foundation and co-chairs the Women鈥檚 Legacy Council, which is leading the rural hospital鈥檚 fundraising efforts to create a cardiac center. Future plans include working with her parish priest to develop more church health-driven community outreach efforts.
鈥淚t is simple,鈥� says Judy, who met her husband, Ted, Arts 鈥�64, on campus. 鈥淯sing my Jesuit nursing education to aid our community鈥檚 health and social service needs certainly feeds my soul.鈥�
Hometown: Minocqua, Wis.
Favorite book: Gift from the Sea by Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Dream dinner guests: 鈥淢y grandparents 鈥� three of them 鈥� whom I never knew.鈥�
A favorite Marquette memory: 鈥淢eeting my husband, Ted!鈥�
Career she aspired to in grade school: 鈥淎 nurse. We played Army at recess, and I was a nurse.鈥�
Marquette legacy: 鈥淢y husband, son, grandson, brother and sister-in-laws, and nephew.鈥�
Most influential person: 鈥淢y husband Ted, who embodies faith, determination and dedication in his life.鈥�
