Judson College artist-in-residence, Billie Jean Young, has been named to the West Alabama “Women of Distinction” for 2011 and will be honored at an awards luncheon April 7 at 11:30 a.m. at the Indian Hills Country Club in Tuscaloosa.
The event is sponsored by the Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama and recognizes those who have made significant contributions in their communities, professions and are positive role models for past, present and future Girl Scouts.
Young graduated from Judson in 1974 as part of the class that included two black graduates for the first time in the college’s history, and she was the second African-American woman to earn a law degree from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law.
Additionally Young is founder and director of “The Drama Project/Child Abuse Project,” which seeks to help women and young people recognize and respond to child abuse.
Currently Young teaches drama production at Judson and in four Perry County schools.
For more information, call 205-453-9513 or visit www.girlscoutsnca.org/wodwest.
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