Judi Kuric

Dr. Judi Kuric is a transformational nursing leader, academic leader, distinguished clinician, and educator with more than three decades of progressive leadership across advanced practice, higher education, and statewide professional advocacy. She currently serves as Associate Dean 2 for MSN Nurse Practitioner and Specialty Programs at Walden University, where she provides strategic oversight for program development, accreditation, faculty leadership, and quality advancement across multiple NP and SP tracks. Her prior leadership roles include Academic Program Coordinator for the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, where she led curriculum innovation, distance-learning expansion, and clinical partnership development. Prior to joining Walden University, she served as Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Indiana’s School of Nursing and Health Professions for over two decades.

Dr. Kuric holds national certifications as an Acute Care NP, Family NP, Emergency NP, and Nurse Executive Advanced. She earned her DNP from Rush University, Post-MSN NP certificates in Acute Care and Family Practice from the University of Southern Indiana, and an MSN from Wayne State University.

She has enjoyed a long and distinguished clinical career, including a decade as a Family Nurse Practitioner and more than 20 years as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in neurosurgery and urgent care. She also continues to serve underserved communities as a volunteer clinician with the Family Community Clinic.

A respected state and national leader, Dr. Kuric serves as the  President of the Kentucky Association of Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Midwives (KANPNM) after years of dedicated service as President-Elect, Treasurer, Finance Committee Co-chair, Membership Committee Chair, Legislative Key