Businesswoman Julia Tarrant Barron and General Edwin Davis King, with the support of other members of Siloam Baptist Church, enlisted the help of Dr. Milo Parker Jewett, a recent graduate of Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary.

[4] The college was granted an exception to Title IX in 2015 which allowed it to legally discriminate against LGBT students for religious reasons.

[5][6][7] Enrollment at Judson in 2019 was 268 [8] and the college offered bachelor's degrees in liberal arts and pre-professional programs.

[13] In 2024, court documents showed that Judson College had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, three years after initially planning to do so.

[14] The principal building of the campus at the time of the school's closure was Jewett Hall, the third of this name.