Background
Judd, Neil Morton was born on October 27, 1887 in Cedar Rapids, Nebraska, United States. Son of Lucius P. and Phoebe (Cummings) Judd.
Judd, Neil Morton was born on October 27, 1887 in Cedar Rapids, Nebraska, United States. Son of Lucius P. and Phoebe (Cummings) Judd.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Utah, 1911. Master of Arts, George Washington University, 1913.
Settled in Salt Lake City, 1901. Public school teacher, 1907-1908. Expeditions, 1907-1914.
Aid in ethnology, United States National Museum, 1911-1917, assistant curator anthropology, 1918, curator American archeology, 1919-1929, curator archeology, 1930-1949, honorary associate in anthropology, January 1950.
Field director various archeological expeditions for Smithsonian Institution, director National Geography Society’s exploration of Chaco Canyon, North. Mexico, 1920, of its Pueblo Bonito expedition, 1921-1927, of its San Juan expedition, 1923, et cetera Cadet flyer and observer, aviation section, Signal corpus, United States army, January 21, 1918-December 18, 1918.
Member official delegate, representative Smithsonian Institution to Seventh American Science Congress, Mexico City, 1935. Member of advisory board Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, 1927-1947. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice-president and chairman of Section H, 1939), Society American Archaeology (president 1939).
Member Washington Academy Sciences, American Anthropological Association (treasurer 1916-1918.
Club: Cosmos (Washington, District of Columbia).
Married Anne South. MacKay, October 29, 1938.