Judy Blair

Judy Blair, born Judith Ann Dunlop in 1941, is a former New Zealand netball international who captained the national side to its first world title. She played representative netball for Canterbury from 1956 and joined the 1960 New Zealand tour of Australia, playing in all three Tests as a goal shooter. At the 1963 World Netball Tournament New Zealand finished second, and four years later she was captain at the 1967 World Netball Tournament, where the team won all seven matches to become world champions for the first time. She played 19 Tests and was unbeaten as captain. She later gained a coaching certificate, and in 2006 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to netball. In 2024 she was an inaugural inductee to the Netball New Zealand Hall of Fame.