Judith C. Russell is the Dean of University Libraries at the University of Florida, a position she has held since May 2007. She was formerly the Managing Director, Information Dissemination, and Superintendent of Documents at the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). Russell also previously served as Deputy Director of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) and, during earlier service at GPO, as director of the Office of Electronic Information Dissemination Services and Federal Depository Library Program.

Russell worked for over ten years in the information industry, doing marketing and product development as well as serving as a government-industry liaison. She also worked for over 10 years in special libraries, including leading the research library at the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT). She also served as the librarian for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment.

She is a former board member and past president of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and a former board member of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). She is active in the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL). She is Chair of the Board of Directors for Oak Hammock at the University of Florida and a board member for the University of Florida Press. She is a member of the board for the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) (https://www.dloc.com/), LLMC Digital (https://llmc.com/), and CHORUS (https://www.chorusaccess.org/).

Russell holds a Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She is tenured at the University of Florida at the rank of University Librarian, the highest rank for library faculty.