
A Wednesday afternoon news release from the Evanston Police Department said she was an Evanston resident.Īn ETHS staff member reported finding the body of an adult female on the school campus “near an outdoor field of the school,” according to an email from Superintendent Marcus Campbell that was sent to students and families Tuesday morning. Tuesday, according to the medical examiner’s office. No residence was listed for Judge, who was pronounced dead at the scene near the tennis courts on the north side of the ETHS campus at 7:48 a.m. Before that, she worked for a year in 2016-17 as a child care provider for Evanston/Skokie School District 65. According to Judge’s LinkedIn page, she worked as a youth counselor in Wilmette. The woman whose body was found Tuesday outside Evanston Township High School died by suicide, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said Wednesday afternoon.Īfter an autopsy, the medical examiner’s office ruled the death was caused by multiple self-inflicted stab wounds to the neck.īefore releasing the cause of death, the medical examiner’s office identified the woman as 63-year-old Kathy L. Police officers remained near the location where school staff discovered the body until early Tuesday afternoon, when officials closed the crime scene and took down the caution tape.
