I'm a National Judge!

Back in October, I sat for the third BJCP exam, a written essay exam.  Recently, I learned that, averaged with my score on the second BJCP exam, a tasting exam, my total scores were high enough to earn promotion to National rank.  As a National judge, I will be able to participate in many ways I haven't previously - administer, proctor and grade exams, for example.  Most importantly, competitions are always struggling to get enough top ranked judges and it will be a good thing for those competitions to have another active National judge available.  

I recently read that BJCP has credentialed approximately 5,700 judges in total and that only about 15% of those credentialed judges are ranked National or higher.  Back when I took the written exam, I wrote up a blog post with the exam questions - you can read it here