Tamra Judge

Tamra Sue Judge (née Waddle; formerly Barney) is an American businesswoman and television personality. She is best known for her role as a long-running cast member on the Bravo reality television show The Real Housewives of Orange County, which she first joined during its third season in 2008.

Judge was born on September 2, 1967, in Glendora, California, and has English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss, and Dutch ancestry. She graduated from Glendora High School in 1985. Prior to her television career, she attended Covina Beauty College to obtain her manicurist license and worked periodically as a real estate agent.

In 2007, it was announced that Judge would join the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County. She remained a main cast member for twelve seasons until her departure in 2020 following the fourteenth season. In 2022, after a two-season hiatus, she announced her return for the seventeenth season during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live!. In 2013, she and her husband Eddie starred in the show's second spin-off, Tamra's OC Wedding, which documented their wedding.

Beyond her television roles, Judge has engaged in multiple business ventures. In 2013, she and her husband founded CUT Fitness, a fitness studio in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, which operated for nearly ten years before closing in 2022. Following her 2020 departure from reality television, Judge resumed her real estate career and launched Vena CBD alongside her husband after his struggle with atrial fibrillation. The company's name was derived from the human heart's Vena Cava veins. She also co-created the podcast Two Ts In A Pod with former The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave.

Judge has appeared on several other reality programs. In 2022, she was one of eight women featured in the second season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. In 2024, she competed as a contestant on the second season of Peacock's reality competition series The Traitors.

In her personal life, Judge was married to Darren Vieth from 1985 to 1990, giving birth to her first child, Ryan, at age 19. She was later married to Simon Barney from 1998 to 2011, with whom she has three children. She married Eddie Judge on June 15, 2013.