Judith Steinberg Dean

Judith Steinberg Dean (born May 9, 1953) is a doctor of medicine in Burlington, Vermont and the wife of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean.

Judith Steinberg grew up on Long Island outside New York City, and graduated from Princeton University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. At the latter university, she met fellow student Howard Dean. The couple moved to Burlington together in order to set up their medical practices and were married in 1981.

In 1991, Howard Dean - who had become active in statewide Democratic Party politics and had served as Vermont's lieutenant governor since 1986 - assumed the role of governor upon the death of Governor Richard Snelling. Judith Steinberg Dean was Vermont's first lady from that time, through her husband's subsequent election and re-elections to the post, and until January 2003, when Howard Dean left office in order to run for president.

The Deans have two children, Paul and Anne.

External links

• Judy Dean likes living out of the spotlight - Des Moines Register, December 11, 2003