Judith Merkle Riley

Judith Astria Merkle was born on January 14, 1942 and on Livermore, California, U.S.A., where she grew up. Her great-grandfather was a Swiss emigrant, who moved to the United States in 1860. Her uncle-abue was the famous player of baseball Fred Merkle. Her father, Theodore Charles Merkle was contralador of the Project Pluto and her brother Ralph C. Merkle is technological professor in a Computer science School. Judith Astria Merkle holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley …