Huxley, born Judith Wallet, was born and raised in Boston.[1][2] She had a brother, George, and studied at Boston College and Hunter College. She started her journalism career at Associated Press in Boston,[2] later working for the Boston Globe, the Rockefeller Foundation, J. Walter Thompson, Food & Wine, The Washingtonian, and Smithsonian on economics, books, mental health, politics, food, and gardening.[1][2] She lived in New York City, where she was a publicity writer for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Appeal.[1] Her column Table for Eight ran every other Sunday for two years in the Washington Post and was collected into book form and published posthumously by William Morrow and Company.[2][1]
In the 1940s, she was national fund chairman and later president of the Junior Mizrachi Women's Organization of America's Hanitah chapter in Brooklyn.[3][4] During her life, she was also a member of the ACLU, the Cosmopolitan Club, and the Woman's National Democratic Club, as well as chairwoman of the Alliance Française de Washington's cooking program.[2]
Huxley traveled widely for work with her first husband, Roger Bordage, including to Paris, India, and Bolivia, the last of which was for a United Nations mission. They later divorced.[2] She then married Matthew Huxley[5] and moved with him in 1963 to Washington, D.C.[1][2] Journalist William Rice wrote in the introduction of the Table for Eight book that the Huxleys "conducted what, in another time, would have been called a salon."[2][5] After 13 years of battling cancer, she died at her Chevy Chase home on October 17, 1983.[1]
