Judith Martin Cadore

Cadore was born in Bay City, Texas in 1957 to Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Martin.[1] Her grandmother, Virginia Brown Gaskin, served as one of her mentors.[1] In 1976, when she graduated as the first African-American valedictorian from Bay City High School, Cadore was denied the opportunity to give the traditional valedictory address and lead the class in the graduation ceremonies.[1] Cadore attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through the National Merit Scholarship Program.[1] She pursued a double major in chemistry and creative writing.[1] While there, she received the Bolt Prize for Poetry, Prose and Manuscript and was named the Eugene McDermott Scholar.[1] Graduating from MIT in 1980, she remained in Boston to work as a research chemist for Water Associates while doing graduate work at Harvard University.[1] In 1984, she returned to Texas to study medicine.[1] She was a Kempner Scholar at the University of Texas Medical Branch.[1]

Completing medical school in 1990, Cadore remained at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for her family practice residency and continued there as a clinical instructor and assistant community professor in the department of family medicine.[1] Later, in 1998, she left her faculty position at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital in order to pursue a private family practice.[1] First working with an all-white, all-male practice in Texas City, Cadore later practiced with Edith Irby Jones in Houston and is now a solo practitioner in Bay City.[1] She serves rural populations prone to health care disparities.[1]

Cadore is the director of the "Sunshine Choir," a children's choir in the Third Ward, Houston.[1] She and her husband Michael, a professional chef and caterer she met in Boston, live in Houston with their three children.[1] In 1998, she raised concerns regarding racial insensitivity to the board of the Clear Creek Independent School District.[2]