"Officer Byrd" Of The #1 Syndicated Television Show JUDGE JUDY

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview "Officer Byrd" Of The #1 Syndicated Television Show JUDGE JUDY.

Petri Hawkins Byrd, otherwise known as ‘Officer Byrd’ from the TV court show, Judge Judy, was born Petri Adonis Byrd in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. (He changed the ‘Adonis’ to his mother’s maiden name, ‘Hawkins’ because “I didn’t want people to think I made it up.”). 

          Byrd - as he’s known to friends and fans alike-, graduated from Eastern District High School, in Brooklyn and attended Hostos Community College,  in the Bronx. In 1986, after being transferred from Brooklyn Family Court to Manhattan Family Court, Byrd met his future TV boss, Judge Judith Sheindlin. In 1989, Byrd received his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from John Jay College. (“Some folks graduated ‘magna cum laude’. I graduated ‘Thank you, Lordy”’! )

            In 1990, Byrd and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area., where he worked for the U.S. Marshal Service.

            It was in 1995, while working as a campus supervisor at a local high school that he received a call from Judge Judy, asking whether he would be interested reuniting with her to do a TV court show. The rest, as they say, is history. Judge Judy is currently in its seventeenth season and shows no signs of slowing down.