Judy Kilpatrick

Dame Judith Anne Kilpatrick (born 1950 (age 71)) is a retired New Zealand nursing academic. After serving as head of the nursing school at the Auckland Institute of Technology, she moved to the University of Auckland, where she co-founded the School of Nursing in 1999.

In the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to nursing education. In the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was promoted to Dame Companion of the same order, also for services to nursing education.