Meet Our Newest Member - Judy Daru

JUDY DARU
CLASSIFICATION: REAL ESTATE- Commercial
SPONSORS :  Bob Rosenberg and Ken Noack, Jr.

Judy is the owner / broker of JA Collins, a Sacramento Retail and Investment real estate firm. Judy has enjoyed a diversified career in the industry covering the spectrum from selling apartment properties to office sales and leasing, retail renovation, development, sales and leasing and land entitlement projects together with her late husband of 31 years, Sacramento real estate developer, Peter Daru.
She has two daughters, her eldest, Michele who just graduated last year Magna Cum Laude and Valedictorian with a Bachelors in Dental Hygiene.  Her youngest, Valerie, just in from the University of Glasgow, Scotland where she is completing her third year studying veterinary medicine. Valerie is no stranger to Rotary having attended RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) under the sponsorship of the Sacramento Breakfast Club as well as her involvement in the Rio Americano High School Rotary Interact Club.
Judy enjoys, in her spare time, reading, hiking, traveling, cooking, yoga and working out at her latest tenant’s gym, Iron Monkey Crossfit (the preferred strength training gym of the Jesuit Rugby Team!) 
Judy also enjoys music of all types, an appreciation instilled upon her and her brother at a very young age by her parents who would often purchase two nose bleed seats at the Philadelphia Orchestra wherein the conductor Eugene Ormandy and his orchestra WERE the baby sitter many evenings. Judy when on to enjoy and attend the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969, then refining her musical repertoire with trips to the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, the world premiere of the Symphony of Australia at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall and the opening of the Summer Opera Season at the Opera House in Budapest, Hungary.
Judy was a Charter member of the Sacramento Breakfast Club.