CHESS JOURNALISTS OF AMERICA

CJA Awards Current Judges

A short bio for each of the current judges for the CJA Awards can be found by clicking on the names below. If you are a judge and are not on this page, please email us your bio and headshot. A full list of judges follows, with links to relevant information about them, if available.

Previous Years’ Judges

A listing of judges from previous years (dating back to 2012) can be found below. Links to judges’ bios coming soon!

Sadiya Ahmadi

Keith Ammann

Brandy Anderson

John Barrasso

Tom Bartell

Randy Bauer

Ralph Bowman

Neil Brennan

J. Franklin Campbell

Bethany Carson

Michael Ciamarra

Adam Caveny

Bill Cornwall

Jon Crumiller

Stephen Dann

John J. Dill II

John Donaldson

Ralph Dubisch

Jim Eade

Robert Ferguson

Bill Feldman

Paul Fielding

Fun Fong

Rob Fusco

Josh Gambrell

Diego Garcas

Erick Garcia

Francisco Gaudalupe

Dov Gorman

Yajat Gupta

John Hartmann

Dan Heisman

Peter Henner

John Hilbert

Eric Holcomb

Randy Hough

Al Lawrence

Harvey Lerman

Sean Manross

Bette Marshall

Melinda Matthews

Pete Minear

Anand Mishra

Frank Niro

Ashley Priore

Jim Quinn

Rebecka Ratcliffe

Boyd Reed

Sophia Rohde

Jeff Roland

Rodion Rubenchik

Anthony Saidy

Phil Simpkins

Andy Soltis

Vanessa Sun

Judit Sztaray

Ed Tassinari

Mark Taylor

Matt Traynor

Vasishta Tumuluri

Jennifer Vallens

Eric Vigil

Arlen Walker

Shawn Wang

Vanessa West