Background
Judy Mofield Mallow was born on August 11, 1949, in Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States. She is the daughter of Connie Prim Williams. As a small child, Judy helped her grandmother, Nina Prim, gather the southern longleaf pine needles that grew in the Sandhills area of North Carolina. As she coiled her basket, Judy would remove the caps of each pine needle that went into it. This was the beginning of what would later become her life-long career.