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W. Jude LeBlanc is an architect and an educator. He received
a Bachelor of Architecture in 1980 from the University of Houston, and in 1982, he received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. He minored in studio art as an undergraduate and studied drawing and painting at both universities.

In addition to maintaining a professional office, he currently teaches as an associate professor of architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has taught architectural design studios, theory seminars, a furniture design seminar/workshop and image making/drawing studios. His teaching and research interests include the relation of architecture to painting and film. He began teaching at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He then moved to Harvard University and taught there six years.

The design work of LeBlanc includes infrastructure and planning, architecture and interiors, and furniture:

Planning/Infrastructure. Several projects at the scale of civic monuments, urban planning and infrastructure have been recognized in juried formats. LeBlanc, in association with Ellen Dunham-Jones, received honorable mention in the 1989 National Design Competition for the Memorial to Women in Military Service for America, Washington D.C. and their project for a seven lane bridge in Charlottesville, Virginia received a Virginia AIA Design Award. In 1994, LeBlanc, in collaboration with Ellen Dunham-Jones, Duke and Patricia Reiter, was awarded an honorable mention in a design competition related to the Olympic games in Atlanta. LeBlanc also collaborated with Christopher Coe on a first prize entry to the 1984 Cross Bayou Waterfront Development Competition in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Architecture/Interiors. Many of his building designs have won awards, and have been published and exhibited. His research includes an ongoing project in collaboration with Professor Brian D. Andrews at the University of Virginia. Titled I 10—The Gulf Coast States, this work explores the question of how architecture might better respond to local circumstance and contribute to the articulation of particular places. (The projects that resulted from this research have received awards including--three National Design Awards and an honorable mention from ACSA , a Third Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition sponsored by "Japan Architect", two Awards and an honorable mention from the BSA Unbuilt Architecture Awards, a Progressive Architecture Award Citation and most recently an honorable mention in the Housing the Next 10 Million Competition, sponsored by the California AIA.)

Furniture. His winning collaboration with Starling Keene on the design of a fabric clothes closet was selected for prototyping in the 1991 Parsons School of Design/Metropolis Furnishing Competition. In 1992, his entry to the Boston Society of Architects sponsored competition for a Giant Chess Set for children was awarded First Place. LeBlanc has taught furniture design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and at Georgia Tech.

LeBlanc has worked in the New York offices of Gwathmey/Seigel and Associates Architects and Skidmore Owings and Merrill Architects. He has maintained a design office, W. Jude LeBlanc Architect, since 1996.