100 CELEBRATING
YEARS OF EXCELLENCE
1920s 1921
Judge Memorial was established at the old Judge Mercy Hospital when Catholic Grammar School and Cathedral High School were combined under the direction of The Right Rev. Glass, 2nd Bishop of Salt Lake City
1925
First graduating class includes 10 students
1929
School renamed after John & Mary Judge, a gererous mining family who donated the Judge Mercy Hospital building to the Salt Lake Diocese
Among those is Robert Dwyer, first native Utahn ordained as a priest in the Salt Lake Diocese. He went on to be a parish pastor and then took charge of the Cathedral in 1946.
1927
First female student leader elected, Emma Anselmo ‘27
1910-18
Judge Mercy Hospital opens in 1910 under the direction of the Sisters of Mercy for miners suffering from black lung. Although it closed in 1915, it was used to house the victims of the 1918 flu epidemic. Judge Memorial’s Centennial
1926
The Right Rev. Mitty becomes 3rd Bishop of Salt Lake City
1929
Stock Market Crash
1930s 1937
Students deliver a bronze plaque to Jordan High School to express the condolences after a bustrain accident killed 24 Jordan students
1931
Judge placed under patronage of Christ the King
1935
1939
Music offerings are expanded with a band and orchestra
1929-33
Great Depression
1932
Most Rev. Kearney becomes 4th Bishop of Salt Lake City
1937
The Right Rev. Hunt becomes 5th Bishop of Salt Lake City
Two alumni pass the Utah State Bar, prompting a school official to say: “Judge Memorial makes no idle claims to superior scholarship, but stands on her record”
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1940s 1940
13 graduates for the Class of 1940 Judge is accredited by the Northwest Association
1948
1943
$10,000 fundraising campaign begins to bring athletic field to regulation length and cover with turf
1944
First of eight Judge alumni is lost in World War II
1941-45 World War II
Judge Memorial’s Centennial
First football state championship led by Coach Moran Sketches for a new athletic field are shown
1948
Plans for first Catholic grade school are revealed (Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School) which will change Judge to a high school
1949
Students put out first yearbook, The Basilean
1950s 1951
Two SpanishAmerican students serve as football team co-captains and another becomes Homecoming queen
1958
1954
First baseball state championship
Gymnasium completed and dedicated
1953
The Judgeonian newspaper made its debut, a four-page edition. The paper retained that name until a 1980 student vote changed it to the Bulldog Press
1956
Sister Mary Leo Anthony named first female Judge Principal
1959
“Million dollar” campaign begins for the construction of a new school building
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1960s 1962
Chapel is added to the school
1960
Construction completed on the new Judge school building
Some classes divided into girls & boys sections. Girls entered classrooms on one side of the hall, boys on the other.
1964
Female students move to the all girls school, St. Mary of the Wasatch and Judge becomes an all boys school
1965
1961
1960
The Most Rev. Federal becomes 6th Bishop of Salt Lake City
Judge Memorial’s Centennial
Original Judge Mercy Hospital structure is taken down
Gil Cordova ‘56 starts as football coach and Jim Yerkovich ‘61 as basketball coach
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales become adminstrators of the school
1966
1967
Two Judge alumni die in the Vietnam War
1964-75 Vietnam War
1963
President Kennedy is shot and killed
1970s 1970
”Catholic” added to the school name St. Mary of the Wasatch closes and Judge becomes a coed school again
50th commencement celebrated
First boys tennis state championship
Soccer, gymnastics and a ski team added
1975
1978
New library dedicated by Most Rev.Bishop Federal
1974
First girls tennis state championship
1976
Bicentennial of the Catholic Church in Utah
1978
Pope Paul and Pope John Paul I both die Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years
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1980s 1980
Completion of new football field
1987
First boys basketball state championship
First boys soccer state championship
First hockey state championship
First girls cross country state championship
1983
Recognized natonally for excellence in private education
1980
The Most Rev. Weigand becomes 7th Bishop of Salt Lake City
Judge Memorial’s Centennial
1989
First girls track & field state championship
1988
Auditorium completed Recognized natonally for excellence in private education
1989
Berlin Wall comes down
1990s 1995
Computer teachers establish the first Internet stations around the school and train teachers and students on its use
1990
First boys cross country state championship
1993
First Gulf War
First boys golf state championship
1996
First girls swimming state championship
1991
1997
First boys lacrosse state championship
First boys swimming state championship
1995
The Most Rev. Niederauer becomes 8th Bishop of Salt Lake City
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2000s 2001
Three weeks after Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, 67 Judge students, faculty and parents visit a New York fire station that lost people in the attack
2005
2003
One of a few high schools in the U.S. allowed to stage a “school edition” of “Les Miserables”
2002
First girls soccer state championship
2001
Terrorist attack on World Trade Centers and Pentagon
Club Interact first high school group to be awarded a Rotary Club charter membership
2002
Winter Olympics held in Salt Lake City
Judge Memorial’s Centennial
2008
State title at the National Mock Trial Championships
2004
Literary magazine Catharisis earns highest award from the NCTE First boys track & field state championship
First Alumni & Student Art Show
2009
2006
Bulldog Press named best 1A-3A high school newspaper by the Utah Press Association
New McCarthey Stadium dedicated
2007
The Most Rev. Wester becomes 9th Bishop of Salt Lake City
2008
Barack Obama elected America’s first black president
2010s 2010
Named Volunteer School of the Year by the Utah Food Bank for the Open Hands Helping Hearts Program
2019
Named Utah’s 2018 Most Challenging School by the Washington Post
2015
Named a PBS Newshour Student Reporting Lab
2017
Gymnasium named after Coach Yerkovich ‘61
2016
JudgeMent Call Robotics team wins Utah Regional First Robotics competition
2017
Black Student Union and ALLIES Club established
2018
First school wide Christ the King Day of Service
The Most Rev. Solis becomes 10th Bishop of Salt Lake City
2020
Moved to distance learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019
COVID-19 pandemic begins
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