the Canadian Museum of Nature (formerly known as the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Canada) in Ottawa, retiring in September 1997 after '30 years 1 month'. Her early work involved the sorting and identifying marine invertebrates for the Canadian Oceanographic Identification Centre (NMNS/COIC; then called the Canadian Aquatic Identification Centre, CAIC). Through this experience, Judy became very familiar with essentially all marine invertebrates, which quickly led to her major interest in polychaetes. Then, in 1979, she was formally appointed as Invertebrate Zoologist (and then, Assistant Curator and Assistant Collection Manager) in charge of the non-crustacean collections, which included the National Annelid Collection. Judy's first two publications were on tunicates and barnacles, but her first polychaete paper soon appeared (Fournier & Levings, 1982), and was quickly followed by eight peer-reviewed taxonomic articles over the next 12 years. Considering that her work was primarily about caring for collections and not so much about research, this was a fine accomplishment. Of those, we can highlight the description of new species, the arenicolid Branchiomaldane labradorensis (Fournier & Barrie, 1987), scalibregmatid Axiokebuita millsi (Pocklington & Fournier, 1987), hesionid Microphthalmus coustalini and M. hystrix (Fournier, 1991), and dorvilleid Ophryotrocha spatula (Fournier & Conlan, 1994), as well as the redescription of Cossura longocirrata (Fournier & Petersen, 1991). While Judy's career as a polychaete expert was relatively short, mainly due to her other curatorial responsibilities and the major move of the museum collections in 1996-97, she did leave more than publications. She was happy to collaborate with novices in polychaete taxonomy, helping them produce several papers. As a very good illustrator, she liked to provide her own illustrations to these papers. For the Canadian authors of this obituary, representing the few remaining polychaete specialists in Canada, Judy was the Annelid person at the Museum when we first got involved in polychaete identification. Judy had an encyclopaedic