Always a Judson Board of Advisors

Class of 2004

Anna Morris Shinbaum is a graduate of Judson College, where she earned a BA in Professional Writing. Anna serves her community as a crime analyst while earning her MS in Crime Analysis from Arizona State University. She is an Alabama native and resides in Birmingham with her husband, son, and two dogs. Anna enjoys traveling, fine arts, crafts, home renovations with her husband, and spending as much time as possible with her son.

Anna enjoys volunteering for non-profits in her spare time. She serves as a member of the Alabama Wildlife Center Board of Directors and as the treasurer of Magic City Performing Arts in addition to being an Always a Judson advisory board member.

Class of 1993

Melissa Glasgow Dutton obtained a double major in English and business from Judson. After working in banking about a year, she answered the call to teach and obtained a master’s in secondary language arts education from UAB in 1995, when she also began teaching at her high school alma mater, Walker High in Jasper, Alabama. She went on to earn her educational specialist’s degree in curriculum and instruction from UAB in 2002, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification in 2008, and a second master’s in school library-media in 2015. She was an elementary library-media specialist from 2015 to 2023 when she retired from public education, having taught every grade level from pre-k through seniors. She has been back in the English classroom at Sumiton Christian School since her retirement. She does educational consulting and test prep through Our Village, Jasper, LLC. She has been married to her husband Stephen for thirty-two years. They have two kids, Patrick, who is twenty-five and lives in Huntsville, and Hannah, who is twenty-three and lives with her husband Zac James in Jasper. She brings her love of Judson and the preservation of her legacy into all that she does with AAJ—most notably serving as photographer at events and in our digitization project.