In 1944, Tobin graduated from the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School), located in Orange, New Jersey. In 1998, the Morristown-Beard School awarded her its Distinguished Alumni Award.[5]
Tobin helped found the Boys and Girls Club of Western Sussex County. She has served on the board of directors of Children and Families First of Delaware, which provides health services and family services. Tobin has also served on the board of directors of the Blood Bank of Delaware.
Delaware named Tobin its state Mother of the Year in 1984. In 2007, the Greater Seaford Chamber of Commerce awarded Tobin its ATHENA award, which recognizes an individual for "professional excellence, for providing valuable service to their community and for actively assisting women in realizing their full leadership potential".[7]
Tobin married her husband, Richard – also a physician – during the 1960s. They had six children together: Cynthia, Pam, Patty, Richard, Jr., Clark and Stanley. Two of them went into medicine after their mother. Patty Tobin works as an anesthetist, and Richard, Jr. Tobin works as an orthopedist. Richard died in 1970.[8]
^"New Medical Examiner's Office Opens in Sussex; Building Named in Honor of Dr. Judith Tobin". Cape Gazette. November 14, 2006.
^[dead link]"Distinguished Alumni: 1998 – Judith G. Tobin – 1944"Archived December 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Morristown-Beard School. "Dr. Judith Tobin credits Miss Turner with encouraging her to attend college instead of entering the Cadet Nurses Corp. She Attended Mount Holyoke College, graduated Phi Beta Kappa and then attended Columbia University Medical School. Dr. Tobin entered the field of Pathology and began her career as a Medical Examiner in Delaware. She raised her six children alone after her husband died."
