Judges

The following professionals served as judges for the World Wide Web Mature Media Awards program. Please do not contact the judges directly for questions related to the awards program. You can address general awards program questions to info@seniorawards.com.

Gary Crooms is a Dallas financial planner and President of Senior Information Services of America®, a long term care financial planning firm that specializes in assisting seniors and their families with late life financial and estate planning issues. Gary is also the co-founder of two monthly periodicals, The Senior News Source and the North Texas Health Source — published for seniors, senior caregivers, and healthcare professional in the North Texas region.

In 2004, Mr. Crooms earned the designation of Registered Financial Gerontologist (RFG), with distinction, from the American Institute of Financial Gerontology. With this specialized education, Gary is able to provide solutions to clients over a broad perspective of aging issues — biology, psychology, sociology and demography — while developing financial plans that adequately address the effects that increased longevity has on finances.

Judith Degado is Director of the Macular Degeneration Partnership, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information on age-related macular degeneration to patients and their families. She is the editor of “AMD Update”, an online monthly newsletter at www.AMD.org.

Ms. Delgado has spent over 30 years in healthcare, with experience in medical schools, private practices and hospitals. She has been a Practice Administrator for a variety of specialty groups, Chief Administrative Officer at UCLA School of Medicine, and a practice consultant. Much of her career has been in eye care, where she began as a Certified Ophthalmic Assistant.

She is a member of the National Eye Institute’s Health Education Partnership, the American Society on Aging and the Internet Healthcare Coalition.

Sandra Lieberman has been in the eldercare field since 1987, having owned an
Adult DayCare Center and professional business services company in Atlanta, GA. She
was a journalist in the field of aging for five years and was content director for
two major portals to the 50+ generations. She now lives in beautiful Gulf County,
Florida on the Emerald Coast where she is the Executive Director of Gulf County
Senior Citizen's Association in Port St. Joe.