Judge played 120 games for East Fremantle in the Western Australian Football League and was an important member of Old East's team in the 1979 grand final win over archrival South Fremantle, one of the most famous grand finals in Western Australian footy folklore.
[3][4] Judge retired from playing at the end of 1988 and returned to Western Australia to take up various coaching roles.
[5] Judge was appointed senior coach of Hawthorn from 1996 until 1999,[3][6] finishing 8th and therefore reaching the finals in his first year.
In 2009, he apologised for an on-air gaffe when he referred to fellow commentator Jon Dorotich as "bigger than Hitler's last gas bill".
[9] Judge died on his 58th birthday in Perth, Western Australia on 15 January 2016 from multiple myeloma.