Judy C. Morelock

For more than 30 years, Judy C. Morelock, PhD, lectured and taught at the university level in Tennessee. She began teaching while serving in the private sector as a market researcher, having earned her doctorate in sociology from Pennsylvania State University several years prior. In 1983, Dr. Judy C. Morelock accepted an invitation to serve as a part-time lecturer at the University of Tennessee, where she taught while continuing to work in her market research position.

Well-received by her students at the university, Dr. Morelock transitioned into full-time teaching in 1987 as an associate professor at nearby Knoxville College, a historically black institution. She quickly earned the trust and respect of her students and after only four years had become head of the department of sociology. She continued to offer a diverse range of coursework including Social Inequality, Race and Ethnicity, and History of the Civil Rights Movement, while simultaneously serving on committees and providing administrative leadership.

Dr. Judy Morelock left Knoxville College in 2003, returning to the University of Tennessee as a full-time lecturer. However, she continued to teach on a volunteer basis at Knoxville for one year, fulfilling her commitment to her students and offering the coursework required to enable students scheduled to graduate that spring to do so.