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Judy Wood is an American Immigration Attorney (born September 3, 1944).

Wood was born in Nassau County on Long Island on an Army base. Her father was in the U.S. Army and stationed there. He later became an attorney and practiced in New York. Wood earned her bachelor's degree from the City College of the City University of New York in 1969, double-majoring in Political Science and Aesthetics (i.e., Drama). After working as an elementary school teacher for a number of years, she went back to school and earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1981.

In 1994, Wood won a landmark asylum case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in which the Ninth Circuit held that her client, Delara Nasseri, was persecuted on account of her political beliefs. In doing so, the Ninth Circuit overruled both the Immigration Judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals. This case is featured in the film, Saint Judy.