Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

She also became superintendent of the Legislative Department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and when that organization was affiliated with the Prohibition Party identified herself with the Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union of which Judith Ellen Foster became president. In 1907 Judith Ellen Foster was appointed a special agent of the Federal Department of Justice. She was the first woman to practice law in Iowa and was one of the first women to be admitted to practice in the Iowa Supreme Court.

She was a popular lecturer on various topics and publiJudith Ellen Fosterd a Constitutional Amendment Manual (1882). She moved to Clinton Iowa in 1869 with her small son and second husband studied law and was admitted to the State bar in 1872. She was the first woman to practice law in Iowa and was one of the first women to be admitted to practice in the Iowa Supreme Court.