Frank Judd, Baron Judd

Frank Ashcroft Judd, Baron Judd, (28 March 1935 – 17 April 2021) was a British Labour politician. He was a Senior Fellow of Saferworld NGO from 1994 to 2002, and from 2002 to 2015, a trustee. In 2007, he became a member of the advisory board at the Centre for Human Rights, and from 2014 to 2015, a member of the Commission on Diplomacy, at the London School of Economics. He was a member of the Unite and GMB trade unions.

Early life Frank Ashcroft Judd was born in Sutton in March 1935, the son of the late Charles Judd, CBE and Helen Osborn Judd (née Ashcroft), a JP.

He was educated at the City of London School and the London School of Economics. In 1966, Judd left his position at IVS to begin a career in politics. In the Lords, he was opposition front bench spokesperson on foreign affairs (1991 to 1992), and on defence (1995 to 1997). He was also principal spokesperson on education (1992 to 1994) and overseas development co-operation (1994 to 1997). Judd was a member of several committees in Parliament, including the Joint Committee on Human Rights from 2003 to 2007. He was again a member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly from 1997 to 2005, where he became rapporteur on Chechnya (from 1999 to 2004) and visited Grozny several times, for which he was posthumously rewarded with the Order of Friendship by the Chechen government in exile.

Judd was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project. From 2015 to 2019, he was a member of the EU Justice Sub Committee.

Publications

Radical Future, 1967 (co-author) Fabian International Essays, 1970 Purpose in Socialism, 1973 Our Global Neighbourhood, 1995 (co-author) Imagining Tomorrow: rethinking the global challenge, 2000 (co-author)

Judd also wrote articles and papers about current affairs.