[1] Horton attended Bennington College and earned degrees in art and architecture, with Richard Neutra as a mentor.

She had just begun graduate studies at Harvard University School of Design when she became ill with poliomyelitis, and left to recover at the home of her maternal grandmother in San Diego.

[3] Judith Horton worked as an illustrator and model builder at the Scripps Aquarium as a young woman.

[2] Judith Horton married oceanographer Walter Munk as his second wife, in 1953, and had three daughters, Lucian, Kendall and Edie.

[10] The Munks designed their home in La Jolla, "Seiche," and frequently hosted campus social gatherings there.