James Judge is a decorated war veteran and small business owner based in Tampa, Florida. He served in the United States Coast Guard from 2003 to 2007 and was deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004 to 2005. From 2010-2011, Judge served at the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command under General David Petraeus in Kabul, Afghanistan as a spokesman for NATO and the U.S. Department of Defense. Following that assignment, Judge returned to Tampa where he began consulting and later founded Judge Public Relations, a PR and marketing firm.