Judy Kelly has been training horses and riders for over 20 years. She teaches and trains at Topline Dressage in Clarkston, Michigan where she lives with her husband Sean.

Her biggest accomplishment in the show arena was placing 5th in the selection trails for the Pan Am Games in 1979 with a horse named ''The Maestro'. Judy was invited to England to compete at Goodwood, however was unable to due to a lack of funding. She was National Junior Champion on another horse in 1977 and also won the Regional Finals that same year at 1st and 2nd level.

Judy has been a professional dressage instructor since 1981, working her way up the ladder to take a horse back to international competition. She has won numerous local and national awards in the last 20 years. Judy has successfully competed horses through Intermediate I. She was invited to ride at Gladstone (the United States Equestrian Team Headquarters) in the Intermediate Championships in 1999.

In the year 2000 she was named to the USET Dressage Developing Riders List and earned USDF bronze and silver medals in addition to winning the Region II Training Level Championship with a client's horse and also the Region II First Level Championships with her own horse.