Dr. Judith (Judy) Reynolds has participated in the horse industry since 1969 as a show person, riding coach, instructor, equine business founder/manager, horse breeder and horse trainer. Her accomplishments include a 1983 Outstanding Horse of the World; AQHA Register of Merit Horses; the 1980 Minnesota QHA High-Point All-Around Horse; multiple MQHA High-Point Performance Gelding Year-End Winners and High-Point Year-End Event Winners (1980-83); and hundreds of open show winners, year-end event and multi-event winners. She is most known for understanding horses and training them to happily perform for years.

She has also been a Graduate Assistant Teacher and a University Assistant Professor, who developed/taught over 20 equine classes. She truly enjoys teaching and has taught classes for Community Education, Gifted Preschool, High School, Community College, University and Graduate School students. While working in industry, she taught horse owners, veterinarians and sales people about nutrition and feeding.

Her formal education includes an AA with a focus on Anatomy and Physiology from Anoka/Ramsay Community College, B.S. in Biology and Education from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota and M.S. (Animal Science) and Ph.D. (Nutrition) degrees from Texas A&M University. Her research includes bone and mineral metabolism in growing and racing horses and physiology of the genetic disorder Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis (HYPP) in Quarter Horses. She developed a system for quantifying symptoms of HYPP, correlated the symptoms with plasma potassium concentration, and created the low-potassium guidelines now used worldwide for feeding horses with that genetic disorder.

Dr. Reynolds served, by invitation, as an official reviewer of the 2007, 6th Edition of the National Research Council’s Nutrient Requirements of Horses, which is considered to be the ‘bible’ of horse nutrition throughout the world. Dr. Reynolds earned her Professional Animal Scientist (PAS) status with the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS) in 1995. In 2010, she was appointed a diplomat of the American College of Animal Sciences in Animal Nutrition (Dipl. A.C.A.N.), the highest honor in the animal sciences and nutrition professions.

Dr. Reynolds worked for ADM from 1998 until 2012, when she earned early retirement from her position as Lead Equine Nutritionist and Equine Product and Technical Manager. She is a very popular speaker at nutrition meetings for horse owners and veterinarians in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. She has conducted over 250 presentations at colleges, Universities, trade shows and horse fairs and written over 175 equine-related articles.

Dr. Reynolds is the Founder of Dr. Judy Reynolds Nutrition Research and Consulting, a business focusing on making the latest scientific information available to horse owners and helping them provide cohesive, economical, total programs for the nutrition and health of their horses. For more information, email to: info@drjudyreynolds.com.