The Revd Canon Dr Judith Maltby is an Honorary Chaplain at the University Church. She is also College Lecturer in Theology and Fellow Emerita at Corpus Christi College. From 1993 - 2023, Judith served as Chaplain and Fellow of Corpus Christi College since 1993. Born and raised in the United States, she attended the University of Illinois, graduating with a double major in English and history. She went on to do doctoral studies in early modern British history at the University of Cambridge, first at Wolfson College and then as a Junior Research Fellow at Newnham College. Dr Maltby taught church history for a number of years in an Anglican theological college in Salisbury, preparing men and women for ordination in the Church of England. She was among one of the first cohorts of women ordained priest in the Church of England in 1994. She has held visiting fellowships at Trinity College, Melbourne, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Virginia Theological Seminary, and the Huntington Library in California. Made Reader in Church History in the University’s Distinction Exercise in 2004, she was Junior Proctor of the University in 2004-5. Dr Maltby is also Canon Theologian (honorary) of Leicester Cathedral as well as an Honorary Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. She is a member of the Church of England’s General Synod, representing Universities and Theological Education Institutes. She has served on the Ministry Council of Church of England and has served on the Crown Nominations Commissions, which nominates individuals as diocesan bishops to the Prime Minister.