Judith Anne Blake is a computational biologist at the Jackson Laboratory and Professor of Mammalian Genetics.

She moved to Harvard University for postgraduate study where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1978 followed by a PhD in 1981.

[6] Her PhD investigated chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard Anolis grahami and was supervised by Ernest Edward Williams.

[4] Blake's research interests are in genome evolution, biomedical ontologies and mouse genetics.

[1] She is one of the leaders and founding principal investigators (PIs) of the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium[7][8][9] and the Mouse Genome Database (MGD).