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WSU community mourns death of Dean Judy Mitchell
Washington State University
PULLMAN, Wash. – Judy Nichols Mitchell, who has served as dean of the Washington State University College of Education for 11 years, died this weekend at her home in Pullman. She was 70.
Mitchell was the university’s longest-serving dean and a prominent leader on both state and national education issues. As dean, she oversaw the Department of Teaching & Learning, and Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling Psychology on all four WSU campuses.
“Judy Mitchell served Washington State University long and well. She was a leader with great intellectual energy and compassion. She made this university a better place and she will be missed by all those who knew and admired her,” said Elson S. Floyd, president of Washington State University.