PROJECT MANAGER
Judy Kron, a 1977 graduate from the Tulane University School of Engineering, is a project manager in
Corporate Human Resources for the DuPont Company in Wilmington, Delaware.
She began her career with DuPont in 1977 in Nashville, TN after graduating with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Chemical Engineering. While attending Tulane, she was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Engineering Student Council and served on the Honor Board. She was elected
President of the student chapter of AIChE, which was awarded outstanding chapter in the
Southeast US. She received the Francis M. Taylor Award at graduation.
Judy has held numerous positions in business, marketing, sales, operations, technology and human resources. Her
early career was spent in manufacturing technical and operations management for polyester
intermediates, titanium dioxide pigments and Freon® fluorochemicals. She continued in
Chemicals and Pigments technical service management, followed by New England-Sales based in New Haven, CT and then startup of an environmental groundwater remediation business
returning to Wilmington, DE. She moved to Human Resources and became responsible for early
career development for a select group of recently hired engineers assigned to Polymer Products.
DuPont then requested that she start up a corporate program to attract and retain marketing
professionals early in their careers.
Judy returned to the business function in Logistics management followed by Nylon Intermediates
business management where she had revenue responsibility for the Americas. Judy commuted to
New York City and was responsible for end-use marketing in Nylon Apparel prior to a business
development assignment in Intermediates for Kevlar® and Nomex® aramids. She became the
US Sales Manager for a portfolio of Specialty Chemical businesses and later was responsible for
Sales and Marketing competency development in DuPont Chemical Solutions Enterprise. Judy
was appointed Technical Service and Applications Development manager for Teflon®
Fluoropolymers and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt. Judy is currently a project manager
responsible for key elements of a Global Human Resource Outsourcing project.
She served in various capacities for the United Way of Delaware in fundraising for the local
community and at DuPont. She resides in Wilmington, DE and enjoys trips home to New
Orleans, international travel, theatre, jazz, piano, the Delaware beach and her alma mater,
Ursuline Academy that she attended for thirteen years nearby her family home in uptown New Orleans.