Judd is a two-time recipient of the Malcolm Law Memorial Award for Investigative Reporting given each year by the Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors organization. In 1989 he received that award jointly with Greeneville Sun Editor John M. Jones Jr., and in 1990 received the award individually. Since 1980, Judd has written more than 30 novels published across the United States and Canada, with more than two million copies of his novels going into print.
