Judith McGeary is an attorney, activist, and sustainable farmer. After earning her bachelor’s from Stanford and her juris doctor from the University of Texas at Austin, she practiced environmental and appellate law. During that time, she became a passionate advocate of sustainable agriculture, and she and her husband established their own livestock farm. After seeing how government regulations benefit industrial agriculture at the expense of family farms, she founded the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance to promote common sense policies for local, diversified agricultural systems. McGeary has been profiled in the Texas Observer and Edible Austin, appears in the documentary Farmageddon, and has been interviewed on numerous radio shows across the country. She serves as the executive director of the Council for Healthy Food Systems and on the board of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.