Educator/author Judith Hicks Stiehm has penned her 10th work titled Champions for Peace: Women Winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace in which she profiles the lives and works of female Nobel Prize winners such as Bertha von Suttner, Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, Mother Teresa, Alva Myrdal, Aung San Suu Kyi, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, and Wangari Muta Maathai. All championed peace and the care and wellbeing of others but what set them apart was their commitment to accomplishing these feat without resorting to war or weapons and arms.

Stiehm is a professor of Political Science at Florida International University where she also served as Provost and Academic Vice President for four years. Her specialties include social change, the status of women, conflict resolution and civil-military relations. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Southern California (USC). She has been a Visiting Professor at the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute and at the Strategic Studies Institute at the Army War College. Stiehm has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military, the California Postsecondary Education Commission, as a consultant to the United Nations Commission for the Advancement of Women and to the Lessons Learned Unit of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and as an Expert Witness to the Senate Armed Services Committee. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds the U.S. Army Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, and appears in the most recent edition of Who’s Who.

Stiehm’s books include Nonviolent Power: Active and Passive Resistance (Heath, 1972), Bring Me Men and Women: Mandated Change at the U.S. Air Force Academy (California, 1981), Women's and Men's Wars (Pergamon, 1983), Arms and the Enlisted Woman (Temple, 1989), It’s Our Military Too!: Women and the US Military (Temple, 1996), and U.S. Army War College: Military Education in a Democracy (Temple 2002).

Stiehm earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, a Master of Arts at Temple University in American History, and a PhD in Political Theory from Columbia University.

Stiehm divides her time between Coral Gables, Florida and Santa Monica, California where she lives with her husband, Richard. They have three daughters Jamie, Carrie and Meredith.

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