Judy Bowers was named Professor Emerita in the College of Music at Florida State University upon retirement, and subsequently completed four years as Biedenharn Endowed Chair at the University of Louisiana Monroe. Bowers has taught music education classes and choirs, provided honor choirs in Canada, Africa, and American all state/honor choirs, regional ACDA honor choirs and the national ACDA middle school honor choir in 2009. In 2014, Bowers was named a Lowell Mason National Music Education Fellow by NAfME, and in 2023, the Florida Music Educators Association inducted her into the Florida Music Hall of Fame.