Judy Jean Chapman

Cox was born in Nashville, Tennessee,^[1] the daughter of Major Eugene Cox Jr.^[2] and Julia Galbreath Cox.^[3] She earned a bachelor's degree in nursing at Vanderbilt University in 1963, graduating first in her class,^[4] and a master's degree from the University of Florida in 1966.^[5]

Chapman was a professor of maternal and child nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing from 1966 to 2001; she was also the nursing school's interim dean in 1982 and 1983.^[1][6] She was clinical consultant on a textbook, Perinatal Nursing (1977).^[7] She also taught in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The Chapmans were honored by almost a thousand attendees at a black-tie dinner in Nashville when they retired from Vanderbilt in 2001.^[8][9] In 2008, she attended the Vanderbilt nursing program's centennial celebrations.^[10] She was president of the Planned Parenthood Association of Nashville.^[1]

Chapman's scholarship was published in journals including Nurse Educator,^[11] Pediatrics,^[12] Journal of Medical Education,^[13] Nursing Research,^[14] Journal of Emergency Medicine, Health Care Management Review, Academic Emergency Medicine, and Prehospital Emergency Care.^[15]

• "Microteaching: How Students Learn Group Patient Education Skills" (1978)^[11]
• "Further Observations on Noise Levels in Infant Incubators" (1979, with Fred H. Bess and Barbara Finlayson Peek)^[12]
• "The role of the medical school dean's wife: Report of a study" (1980, with Michael Miller)^[13]

• "Use of Data Base Microcomputer Software in Descriptive Nursing Research" (1985)^[16]
• "Concerns of Breast-Feeding Mothers from Birth to 4 Months" (1985, with Mary Jane Macey, Mary Keegan, Peggy Borum, and Sandra Bennett)^[14]
• "Information on Spouses of Health Care Leaders" (1986)^[17]
• "The acting or interim leadership position: Expectations, perceptions, realities" (1988, with John E. Chapman and John O. Lostetter)^[18]
• "Do fireservice paramedics (EMT-P) seek follow-up medical information about patients brought to a level I trauma center?" (1997)^[19]
• "Emergency Medical Services and the Medical School Curriculum" (1997)^[20]
• "Impact of EMS education on emergency medicine ability and career choices of medical students" (1999, with Steven J. Weiss, Mary Lou Haynes, and Amy A. Ernst)^[15]

Cox married Vanderbilt medical school dean John E. Chapman in 1968.^[21] He died in 2004,^[22] and she died in 2025, at the age of 83. There is a teaching award in Vanderbilt's Department of Emergency Medicine, and a quadrangle at Vanderbilt, both named for the Chapmans.^[23]