Judy Butland

Butland's funeral was held on Wednesday 2 January 2019, at the Salvation Army, Bridlington, Yorkshire.

Butland was appointed posthumously, in October 2019, as Engineer of the Week No 89 by the Women's Engineering Society.

In 1967 she went to work at the Manchester Business School as Mathematical Assistant to Winifred Hackett, an aeronatutical engineer. She worked, amongst other things, on scheduling workflows for aeroplane production. The project entailed statistical analysis, which required complex calculations, so Hackett sent Butland to lectures on the principles of computing, which led to Butland's career in software engineering. She advised other groups in the Business School on computing, including working with the librarian to automate the classification of publications.

In 1964 Judy Butland was married to David Butland who she met at the University of Manchester. They had one son, Philip.

Judy Butland (née Whiteley) (6 October 1940 - 2019) was a British engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities. She was recognised in 2019 as an Engineer of the Week by the Women's Engineering Society.

Judy Whiteley was born on 6 October 1940 in Leeds, the daughter of George Whiteley, a draughtsman, and Margaret Whiteley, a seamstress. She suffered from arthritis all her life and from the age of 12 to 14, was confined to bed at Wharfedale children's hospital in Menston, with little communication with her family and no information from her doctors. She never talked about her illness.