Judith Ann Whitworth (born 1 April 1944) is an Australian medical researcher in the areas of kidney function and blood pressure.
[4] In 1992, Whitworth received a DSc from the University of Melbourne for her thesis, "Steroid Hypertension in Man, Rat and Sheep.
[6] In 1997, Whitworth was the first woman to be appointed chief medical officer in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services for a three-year term.
[12] The Judith Whitworth Fellowship for Gender Equity in Science was inaugurated in 2014 in recognition of her work at the Australian National University.
[8][19] Whitworth was the second wife of the late Professor John Ludbrook, (1929–2017), a medical researcher and surgeon.