Judith Ngaire Maud Pickard QSM (née Kain; 19 June 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a New Zealand abstract painter, librarian and advocate for women's rights.

[1] During World War II Pickard and her mother travelled to England to join her brother, Edgar Kain, a fighter pilot with the RAF who had recently become engaged, but he died before their arrival.

In 1952, she married schoolteacher and writer Alexander Pickard, best-known by his literary pseudonym AP Gaskell, and they had three children.

[1] She and her husband participated in political protests against the 1981 Springbok tour and advocated for electoral reform in New Zealand.

She supported the Labour Party and was a long-time friend of Dianne Yates, who said of her, "any campaign for liberty, honesty and justice, Judy would be there".