
Judy Koch: Bringing high-quality books to all children
For a woman who continues to insist that she “never wanted a career,” Judy Koch has taken some surprising turns in her life. After spending a decade helping her husband run their family-owned sheet metal company, the couple decided to divorce in 1989. At the time, Koch thought to herself, “‘I never really wanted a career anyway — now I can stay home and be a full-time mother to two teenage boys.'” But, inexplicably, she ended up buying her husband out of the business, which she “never had any intention of doing,” she insists.