Judy Pal

With more than 30 years’ experience, Judy Pal has served in management and public relations positions for public safety, government, and the professional sports and entertainment industry, in both Canada and the United States. She has also taught media and public relations skills and served in executive staff positions with law enforcement for more than a decade.

Judy began working in PR and sports marketing for the Edmonton Oilers and later as a television anchor for Global Television. After pivoting in her career, she took her communications experience and applied it to her first love, law enforcement, and took a job with the Halifax Regional Police in Nova Scotia before moving to the US.

Since then, she has worked for numerous police organizations including the NYPD and Baltimore, Atlanta and Milwaukee police departments. Her international work includes working with governments in Trinidad and Tobago, Chile and Australia. She was also director of operations for the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association.

Today, Judy lives in Knoxville, Tennessee and works as a consultant, spending most of her days on the road training public information officers and police leaders about how to better communicate. She has also written a guide on crisis communications and was recently the keynote speaker for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Strategic Communications Conference held in Toronto.