Judi Uttal is the vice president of ASOC having previously served as president of the Orange County Asperger’s Support Group for ten years. In 2012 founded the Spectrum Speakers Gavel Club, a Toastmaster Club designed to help young adults with ASD improve their social and communication skills through Toastmasters. This group is serving as a model for an Organization of Autism Research Grant being performed by faculty from Cal State Fullerton on the effectiveness of Toastmasters for adults with autism spectrum disorder.
Judi is active in the Orange County Transition Initiative and the OC Local Partnership Agreement where she is leading the benefits planning committee. Judi established the Autism in Entertainment Working Group and was recently award a Department of Developmental Services Grant to host and Autism in Entertainment Conference in the Spring of 2024. Judi retired from a career as a high technology marketing. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Math/Computer Science from UCLA (where she graduated Cum Laude) and an MBA from the Tepper School of Management, Carnegie Mellon University (where she graduated in the top ten of her class). Judi is married and is the mother of a 31-year-old son with High-Functioning Autism who is graduated as Cinema and Television major from CSUF.