In the mid-1980s, she was a successful recording artist; making it all the way to number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Chart in 1986 with the song "Until I Met You."
[3] Her recorded songs include LeAnn Rimes's number-one hit "One Way Ticket (Because I Can)" (co-written with Keith Hinton).
In 1980, Judy married drummer and professional fisherman, John Rodman and the couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
Rodman continued to record radio and TV jingles for mainstream companies while trying to break into the country music business.
Also that year, Rodman won the coveted Academy of Country Music's "Top New Female Vocalist" award.
The song spent the week of July 19 at the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart list.
The album spawned two top ten Country hits: "Girls Ride Horses Too" and a cover of Bob Dylan's "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight".
[2] Several singles from Rodman's forthcoming third album proved modestly successful with radio, but the MTM Records label folded.
[5] After MTM records liquidated, Rodman eventually faded away from the country music spotlight, but not out of the business altogether.
Singers like, George Strait, Randy Travis, Kathy Mattea, Patty Loveless, Ricky Van Shelton, Lyle Lovett, and Dwight Yoakam all found their way to making hits on the Country charts around this time.
She also developed her own vocal training method and began working with all kinds of genres of singers, including singer-songwriter Radney Foster, new pop artists Mat Kearney and Emil Bishaw and country artists Bryan White and Australian star Shea Fisher and musical theater projects like her own Runaway Home and We the People.