Judith Sulzberger


Judith Peixotto Sulzberger was an American physician and philanthropist. Her family has been associated with The New York Times since her grandfather, Adolph Ochs purchased the paper in 1896.

Early life and childhood

Sulzberger was one of four children of Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger and Arthur Hays Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times from 1935-61.
Her brother, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger served as publisher of The New York Times and chairman and CEO of the Times Company; her sister Marian Sulzberger Heiskell was a philanthropist; and her other sister, Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg was a publisher.

Education

She graduated from Smith College in 1946, and from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1949.
Her internship was in pathology at Grasslands Hospital of Valhalla, New York.

Career

She was a director of The New York Times from 1974 to 2000.
She authored a book Younger.
In the early 1990s, she provided financing for what became the J. P. Sulzberger Genome Center at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, her alma mater.

Death

She died at age 87 from pancreatic cancer in her native New York City. She was survived by, among others, her husband, Budd Levinson, and her two sons by a previous marriage,
Daniel Hays Cohen and James Matthew Cohen, as well as a stepdaughter, two stepsons, four grandchildren, and several step-grandchildren.