Judy Hartman grew up in Grass Valley, CA. She has been riding horses since she was 4 years old. When she was 9 she joined the 4-H club in Nevada County, CA, where she was introduced to a dressage trainer named Lucy Parker who became her mentor. She still to this day rides with Lucy. Judy’s dressage career is mostly bringing horses up through 4th level then selling before she gets to FEI.
A few years later she met another trainer, Leslie Deutsch. Leslie was involved with the local Pony Club and got Judy interested in jumping. As a teen she began showing in the Junior Jumpers and evented through training level.
Her senior year she moved to Reno and in 1995 she joined the Marine Corp. She was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, her first year. Then she was stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC. She missed horses so she found a local barn and started giving lessons. She had around 10 students that showed competitively at the local shows.
She left the Marine Corps in 1999 and went to work as a barn manager at an event barn in Southern Pines, NC where she helped with the local 4-H Club and Pony Club. She has brought many horses along to be competitive show horses and gained a reputation for working with difficult horses.Judy moved to Gardnerville, NV in 2001 and ran her own barn for two years. She had a few horses in training and students who were mostly Pony Club kids. She had a successful resale business, where she brought in thoroughbreds and resold them to the local pony clubbers or other local barns.
Judy and her husband, Dewey, now reside on Milestone Farm with their two girls. Dewey holds many roles from diesel mechanic to farm foreman and handyman.
