Judith Steinberg Dean (born May 9, 1953) is an American physician from Burlington, Vermont.
She is married to Howard Dean,[1] the former Governor of Vermont and past chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
[3] She earned her bachelor's degree in biochemistry at Princeton University[4] and then received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, where she met fellow medical student Howard Dean.
[3] After completing a fellowship in hematology at McGill University in Montreal, Steinberg moved to Burlington, Vermont, with Dean in order to set up their joint medical practice.
She did not join her husband in his campaign for the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 until after he lost the Iowa caucuses.