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Judith Garrett Segura is a writer, researcher, and visual artist. She retired as president and trustee of the Belo Foundation at the end of 2004, after a 24-year career at A.H. Belo Corporation, now called DallasNews Corporation.

While at Belo, she simultaneously served as company historian, and she was curator of the company’s 300-piece collection of works by Texas artists. The company archives, which she collected and organized is now housed in the DeGolyer special collections library at SMU, where she served on its Library Executive Board for many years.

Following her retirement, she spent several years organizing the business papers of T. Boone Pickens for placement at Oklahoma State University. After that, she organized the papers of Morton H. Meyerson, then wrote a private biography for his descendants. Additionally, she has served as researcher and writer for the Communities Foundation of Texas, focusing on the Caruth family of Dallas, creating a history of that early Dallas family, which she has followed up with biographies of numerous men and women who were enslaved as workers on the Caruth properties in mid-19th Century Dallas.

She has published three scholarly non-fiction books, as well as one book and one CD of her poetry. Her most recent non-fiction work, OUR STORIES, was published in 2022 by UNT Press.

And as a visual artist, she has carried out three separate commissions for public art in Dallas, including one for the University of North Texas at Dallas, which encompassed three installations for its original permanent campus.

She was a long-time member of several university advisory boards, including for the Central University Libraries at SMU, the Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas in Austin; and the UNT College of Visual Art and Design. She also served on the board of trustees of Paul Quinn College in Dallas; as a founding board trustee of the Old Red Courthouse Foundation; and as a trustee of the Dallas Historical Society.

She holds a BA from Texas A&M Kingsville, an MA in English and an MFA in visual art from UNT.