Judd is of Wangai descent and lives in Perth.  He graduated with Honours from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) and was a Graduate Process Engineer at BHP Biliton Iron Ore.  He was the recipient of the BHP Biliton Iron Ore Scholarship for tertiary studies in 2010 and winner of the Rob Riley Memorial Prize in 2009. 

Judd completed an MPhil in Engineering in Sustainable Development from Wolfson College at ​Cambridge University in 2016.

He is currently the Director of the Indigenous Management Group, an organisation that he established.