Judith Ann Kathleen Howard CBE FRS (born 21 October 1945 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is a distinguished British chemist, crystallographer and Professor at Durham University.She graduated from University of Bristol with a B.Sc. and worked at the University of Oxford as a postgraduate student in Dorothy Hodgkin's group. She married David Howard.She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree at the University of Bristol in 1986.