Julia Jones-Pugliese (May 9, 1909 – March 6, 1993)[3] was an American national champion foil and épée fencer and fencing coach.

[5] Jones married Anthony Pugliese, a sculptor and painter who designed the NIWFA competition medal awards (depicting a silhouette of her lunging), which are presented in her name and which serve as the NIWFA logo, and who also designed the logo for Brooklyn College; he died in 1953.

[7] She had a daughter, Penelope Shaw, an instructor in modern dance and yoga at Hunter College; and two sons, Patri, who taught physics at Harvard University, and Paul, a cartographer for Time magazine.

[12][8][13] The association, whose membership grew from 4 to 79 colleges, conducts America's oldest continuous intercollegiate championship competition for women in any sport.

[1] She was the fencing team's coach from 1956 until her death in 1993 at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York system.

[1] At the 1970 World University Games in Turin, Italy, Jones-Pugliese was the first woman appointed to coach an international US fencing team.