Judith (Judy) Ann Schiff, 84, died July 11. Born in New York City, she moved to New Haven at the age of four. She served as chief research archivist at the Yale University Library and the university’s longest-serving staff member in recent memory. Since 2012, she also served as New Haven’s volunteer city historian. While working for the library, she earned a master’s degree in history from Columbia University and a degree in library science from Southern Connecticut State College. She took the role of chief research archivist in 1971. She was a member of the Yale and Slavery Working Group that President Salovey convened in October 2020 to investigate Yale’s historic roles in and associations with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. The group presented its findings during a three-day academic conference on campus last fall. In November 2011, Yale presented Schiff the inaugural Edward Bouchet Legacy Award for her efforts to publicize the story of Bouchet, an early African-American Yale graduate and the first to earn a Ph.D. in the United States. She founded or co-founded several local and professional historical organizations, including New England Archivists, the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven, and the Ethnic Heritage Center of New Haven. She served on the governing boards of the New Haven Museum and the Grove Street Cemetery. She published widely on New Haven history. In 2019, she received the Linda K. Lorimer Award for Distinguished Service to Yale. In 2020, she was awarded the Yale Medal, the Yale Alumni Association’s highest honor for outstanding individual service to the university.