Judith Ann Yannello

Judith Ann Yannello (March 27, 1943 – July 20, 2019) was an American jurist who served as a judge of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals and the United States Court of Federal Claims from 1976 to 1996.

Yannello was born in Buffalo, New York. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in 1964, followed by a Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School in 1967. She was a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Claims from 1967 to 1968, and then a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1968 to 1973, when she entered private practice in Washington, D.C.