Regional Judges

Location: New York, New York
Phone: 212-242-6143
Email: walterhutzler@yahoo.com
Bio: coming soon....

Location: Fairfax, Vermont
Phone: 802-849-2456
Email: sheilamizzi@aol.com
Bio: coming soon....

Location: Manchester, New Hampshire
Phone: 603-264-1952
Email: Shanfoo@grolen.com

I started showing in 1976 with a Tonkinese Female, Shani Lyn. Shanfoo Cattery was prominent in the early days when the Tonkinese were working towards Championship in CFA, the Tonkinese were advanced to Championship in May 1984. I started my judging career in another association in 1980; then I applied to CFA in 1988 and began Judging in 1989. Some of the other breeds I have shown and owned over the years are Turkish Angoras as well as pets in the HHP division.

Location: Maywood, New Jersey
Phone: 201-712-0792
Email: BriarMar99@aol.com
Bio: coming soon.....

Location: Massachusetts
Phone: 781-483-3007
Email: purrformer@gmail.com

I have wanted to judge cats ever since I attended my first cat show back in 1988 and got to see "that wonderful lady with the funny cat glasses*" handle my first Russian Blue show kitten. My original cattery, "Silverlock", was named after a science fiction/fantasy novel and was founded with my first husband, the late Robert Hoffman. We concentrated on Russian Blues and Turkish Angoras. While preparing for the judging program, I bred Oriental Longhairs and showed Persians, Birmans, American Shorthairs, Abyssinians, and Manx.

When I met Bob Zinck, who is now my second husband, and lured him into the cat fancy, we established a new cattery name: "Folie a Deux" (a French psychological term referring to a disease/delusion shared by two people :-). Our primary focus is bicolor Turkish Angoras and are proud to have produced the breed's first bicolor National Winner, who's also the 2009-10 Breed Winner. We are also now working with Siberians.

I was licensed as a LH Apprentice Judge in 2003, when the judging program rules still required out-of-region assignments for single specialty judges. I've consequently progresed through the program more slowly than current applicants do, but in June 2009, I was advanced to Approved Allbreed. Along the way, I've had the privilege of judging in every single region of CFA (including Japan) and it's been a wonderful trip indeed.

* For you newbies, I'm talking about Marilyn Cruz.

Location: Harrisburg, PA
Phone: 717-232-4737
Email: euphoria1111@verizon.net
Jeri Zottoli is a life long resident of the central Pennsylvania area, living the past 34 years in the state's capital Harrisburg. She lives with her husband of 10 years Dan and their cats - 5 Birmans (4 neutered/spayed, 1 whole female), 3 Maine Coons (2 neuters, 1 whole female), 2 Bombay neuters, 2 Scottish Fold neuters - a 6 year old Pug and a 14 year old sun conure parrot. Jeri had retired after 31 years of state employment, 20 years with the state's parole board dealing with inmates and parolees. She has recently returned to work part-time.

Euphoria Cattery was registered with CFA in 1977 when Jeri began breeding Siamese, then Oriental Shorthairs, Bombays and Burmese. In 1994 Jeri got her first Birman and has been breeding Birmans on a small scale since then. Jeri has also bred Persians (tabby) and Maine Coons, and has exhibited Cornish Rex, American Shorthairs, Japanese Bobtails, Abyssinian and Korats, including numerous regional and national winners.

In 1993 Jeri applied to the CFA judging programs as a shorthair trainee and in 2003 she was advanced to approved all-breed status. She has judged all over the continental United States and in Canada, Russia, Japan, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Austria and Italy. Jeri mentors several upcoming new judges, has been the Birman Breed Council Secretary for 3 years and has participated as faculty in the last 5 CFA Breed Awareness Orientation Schools as both longhair and shorthair instructor. Jeri is the newly elected president of the CFA Judges Association. She has also done CFA breed presentations for the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

Location: Franklin, Connecticut
Phone: 860 857-9865
Email: silverpurkat@prodigy.net

When I went to my first cat show at the tender age of 9 years old in 1983 I was hooked from the start. I watched attentively as the judges would pull out the cats, handle them and describe each breed. I said to myself "that would be so cool to be a judge!", I told my mother that I wanted to be a judge and worked hard in the beginning but as life has its twist and turns I was unable to apply or work on things towards the judging program right away. My mom has always been the best support for me. She was just the guardian signer, chauffeur and financial supporter that's it, I made the breeding decisions, grooming, picking shows, learning vet cat care, etc. I started off in HHPs in the beginning and but got my first CFA registered persian in 1986 and start having litters in 1988 breeding whites, brown tabbies, creams and then later silvers. Yet through the early years of teenage life, college and work I had to stop from time to time but once I brought my first home 1995 I got back on track and focus on my requirements. In 2000 I was introduce to the world of Turkish Angoras and the joke was "TAs are like a bag of potato chips, you just can't have one". Boy were they right!! They are so rewarding and funny little characters!

I feel a CFA judge is the highest achievement in the cat fancy and a person who encourages growth in the cat fancy by encouraging, help teach and give advice to new exhibitors/breeders about the breeds they are working on. They should also entertain the spectators at the shows and gives those extra special touches towards encouraging young exhibitors to show, since they are the future of the fancy and to continue to maintain our organization. As the newest kid on the block I will set myself to these goals in mind and will continue to put my time, energy and heart into the judging program to achieve my goals as an allbreed CFA judge.

Location: Quebec, Canada
Phone: 819-322-7148
Email: chaopya@cgocable.ca

Lorraine, along with her husband Pierre, established Cha-o-P'ya Cattery in 1994 - a small cattery, breeding exclusively Siamese. Due to careful breeding they have improved their Siamese with successful results including two regional winners, seven DM's and 45 Grand Champion & Premiers.

While successfully breeding Siamese for 13 years, Lorraine moved up the ranks working as a ring clerk and then as a master clerk. She was accepted into the judging program and as a shorthair trainee in 2007. In order to advance in the program, Lorraine knew that she'd have to work with other breeds. Over the next four years, Lorraine worked with and had living with her, a Chartreux, a American Shorthair, a Persians, an Exotic, a Maine Coon as well as agented an Abyssinian, a Japanese Bobtail and a Birman. All of which she showed to their Grand Champion titles.

In May 2008 Lorraine was advanced to shorthair apprentice. After working in that area and becoming an approved shorhair judge, she was accepted as a longhair trainee in 2010. In February 2011 Lorraine was advanced to longhair apprentice which approved her to judge double speciality.

Having retired after 42 years as a financial advisor and mortgage originator in a Montreal bank, Lorraine is free to apply all her energy and dedication to CFA.

Location: Wayne, New Jersey
Phone: 862-221-9447
Email: whiteweb00@aol.com

I am currently an Approval Pending Shorthair Judge that was accepted in June 2009 and working toward my advancement to become an All Breed judge. I currently breed Cornish Rex, and Sphynx but have bred Siamese and Devon Rex in the past . I have been exhibiting in CFA since 1992 under the cattery of Whiteweb.