Judy (Walgren) DeHaas graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a degree in Journalism. She took her first job in Odessa, Texas, with the Odessa American in 1987. Three months later, the Dallas Morning News hired her, where she worked until March 1999. Judy was part of a team of journalists for the Morning News that received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their series on violent human rights abuses against women. Her work for the series highlighted women and Islam and female genital mutilation. She was the first person to photograph one of these ceremonies in Somalia and the News was the first newspaper to publish photos about the practice. Houghton-Mifflin published her book Natinga, about children and war in Southern Sudan, in September 1998. Among her other achievements are an Award of Excellence from the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, The Harry Chapin World Hunger Award, The Barbara Jordan Award for reporting on people with disabilities, the APME Photojournalism Award and the AMPE Sweepstakes Award, the Headliners Award, the Texas Council Against Violence Award for her work with abused women, and many Colorado Press Association honors. She has been published in the Communication Arts and the American Photography Annuals. From 1999 to 2004, Judy based herself in Taos, New Mexico, and worked as a freelance photographer for publications such as Texas Monthly, National Geographic Traveler, People Magazine, and The New York Times. She has traveled the world shooting promotional photos for the Peace Corps' recruiting campaign, contributed to the book In Search of America by Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster, and shot a chapter for a book on child labor that took her to Nepal and India. She also helped produce and shoot a film about the Quechua-speaking people in Peru with expert and author Andrea Heckman. In February 2004, Judy accepted a staff photographer position at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado, where she continues to cover socially relevant issues and has branched into food and garden photography, as well. She and her husband Peter had their first child Theo in June 2006.