Despite spending just two seasons in a Lion uniform, Judie Lomax left an indelible mark on the Columbia women’s basketball program. A two-time NCAA Division I rebounding champion, Lomax will forever hold the distinction of being the first NCAA Division I women’s basketball player to lead the nation in rebounding in consecutive seasons. She averaged 14.3 boards per game as a junior in 2008-09 and tallied 14.2 per game as a senior. Those averages helped Lomax produce the top two rebounding campaigns in Lion lore with 401 in 2008-09 and 398 in 2009-10.

The first Columbia women’s basketball player to be named Ivy League Player of the Year, Lomax’s name still dots the Lion record books. She ranks second in career rebounds with 799 and third in single-season points with 521 (2009-10). Lomax also boasts four of the top five single-game rebounding efforts for Columbia, including a career-high 27 against Brown in the final outing of her career on March 6, 2010. In each of her two seasons, Lomax was both a first-team All-Ivy selection and an Academic All-Ivy honoree. She was an Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention in 2009-10 after leading the Lions to a school-record 18 wins, their most since becoming a Division I program.  

A 2010 graduate of Barnard College, Lomax was inducted into the Columbia University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016. After graduation, she pursued a professional basketball career with the Connecticut Sun of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), Aanekosken Huima of Finland’s Naisten Korisliiga and Eisvogel USC Freiburg of Germany’s Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga. Lomax retired to pursue her lifelong goal of becoming a psychologist. After earning her master’s in 2015, Lomax became a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Loyola University Maryland. Her primary clinical and research interests are in sports psychology, resilience, adjustment to life transitions and geropsychology. She is currently completing her dissertation, which examines the role of exercise regiments in fostering self-efficacy and self-esteem in individuals as they work to exit homelessness.