The metals we feature in our designs are purchased only in the United States and include 14 Karat Gold-Filled and Sterling Silver. We use these metals because they provide the highest quality at the most affordable price.

14K Gold-filled is a durable gold product affording the look of solid gold at a fraction of the cost. It is made by bonding a layer of 14K Gold to a base metal, usually brass, through heat and pressure. (Think of the base metal as a sponge and the layer of gold filling in the holes when heated.)  It is sturdier than gold plate — which has an ultra-thin coating and can turn colors and eventually chip off — or vermeil, which can rub off through normal wear. 14/20 Gold-Filled materials are regulated by the Federal Trade Commission and must contain 1/20th of 14K Gold.

If you can wear gold, you can wear gold-filled without worries of an allergic reaction as all of our jewelry is nickel-free. Judith is very allergic to nickel and can wear every piece in the line with no problem.

We offer Argentium Sterling Silver where possible, because it is a pure silver with the alloy Germanium (rather than the usual copper), which reduces tarnishing considerably.

See a complete list of gemstones we carry as well as their metaphysical properties! We carry all of our gemstones in our smallest size (rondelle), however not each of our gemstones is available in every size offered. If you have any questions about gemstone availability, feel free to email us here; or call one of our Nashville or Franklin gurus at (615) 269-5600!

Unfortunately, no. We are unable to work with any materials other than our own.

No! That’s never a good idea with any of your jewelry.

The metals we use can tarnish like solid gold, due to several factors such as perfume, perspiration, soap, chemicals, and body chemistry. Some days, depending on your ph or your lotions, your finger can darken underneath a ring. We’ve even found that when we are low on iron, our skin can darken temporarily. Luckily, you can use a silver polishing cloth and Dawn dishwashing soap to keep your jewelry looking as good as new. Sometimes our finest chains will darken permanently if they are worn constantly, showered in or swam in, in either the ocean or a pool.

No! Judith is super-allergic to nickel and is able to wear all of our jewelry.

Absolutely! If you would like a length not listed on the product drop-down menu, please message us here. The charge will be proportionate to what you need. No worries, we make adjustments all the time and we are so glad to do it!

Shipping time estimates are per USPS & FedEx Guidelines:

USPS First Class Mail: 1-5 business days, uninsured.
USPS Priority Mail: 1-3 business days, insured up to $50.00.
FedEX2nd Day: Delivery by 4:30 p.m. in 2 business days to most areas, by 8 p.m. to residences. Available throughout all 50 states.**does not deliver on Saturday or Sunday**
FedEx Standard Overnight: for delivery by 3 p.m. to most addresses, and by 8 p.m. to residences. **does not deliver on Saturday or Sunday**

Please allow up to 3-10 business days for production, processing, and handling time for orders to be shipped out! We hope you find value in each piece, handcrafted with heart and soul by one of our talented artisans!

Orders are processed and fulfilled Monday-Friday as they come in, regardless of the shipping method chosen. Custom orders placed on Saturday and Sunday are processed the following business day. If your order is placed on or during a major holiday, your order will be processed the following business day. 

Our items are available in a staggering combination of around 30,000 different options, therefore retail stock comes in limited supply. If you need something in a pinch, please email us at gurus@judithbright.com and we’ll let you know what’s ready to roll. 

When placing an order, you have several shipping options available, each with its own cost and delivery time frame. Here’s a breakdown of our shipping costs and services:

USPS Standard Shipping:

Orders Under $100: $3.99
Orders Over $100: Free

USPS Priority Mail: $10

FedEx 2nd Day: $12

FedEx 2nd Day + Signature Required: $15

USPS Priority + Signature Required: $15

FedEx Standard Overnight: $40

Orders are filled as they come in,regardless of the shipping method chosen. If your item is not in stock and is more complicated, expedited shipping will get it there more quickly once it has been made. We pride ourselves on a quick turnaround, but we want to manage your expectations as best we can! That said, we have thousands of items in stock in our stores so we'll definitely have something if you are in a pinch. Just give us a call at (615) 269-5600 and we’ll let you know what awesome things we have on hand.We may have to make your jewelry if we do not have it in stock.In that case, it could take up to 7-10 business days before your item is ready to ship, depending on the complexity of the item. If you are in a bind or have an event, don’t worry because we’ve got your back! Just email us via gurus@judithbright.comand we’ll do whatever we can to get your jewelry to you or to whomever you are gifting.

We do not ship internationally at this time, but we hope to at some point!

If your package gets lost in transit, Judith Bright LLC. will do everything we can to assist you, although we cannot be held responsible for packages once they are in the hands of USPS and/or proof of delivery is generated.

For all orders over $300 we strongly recommend choosing USPS plus Signature or FedEx 2day shipping. 

Since we cannot be responsible for delivered packages that have been lost or stolen, we highly recommend selecting a delivery address that you trust and select a shipping method accordingly. 

Packages returned with delivery failure (multiple delivery attempts, insufficient address information, refusal, canceled after shipment, etc.) due to customer error will incur a $5.00 restocking/reshipping fee. A restocking & reshipping fee will be applied to the final refund amount or charged upon re-shipment of the order once the original package is received in-house.

Once orders are placed, they are put in production and we cannot guarantee changes or cancellations. Please email us asap with any changes gurus@judithbright.com and we'll do our best to help!

With proper care and careful wear, your Judith Bright jewelry should last a lifetime. Here are some tips for wearing and loving your favorite one of a kind, handmade pieces:

— Do not wear your jewelry in the shower, bath, swimming pool or ocean. Our metals are of high quality, but water will always find a way to wear away at metal.

— Wait until all lotion, sunscreen, medicine, and perfume are dry before putting on your jewelry.

— For cleaning, gold filled and silver jewelry can be treated the same way- using your silver polishing cloth and then gently clean with Dawn dish soap and warm water. For some pieces, it may be appropriate to use a soft-bristled toothbrush to clean them. When you are not wearing your jewelry, place it in a cloth bag to halt the tarnishing process.

We want to keep you in your JB, therefore we are happy to provide repairs! The fee is 15% of the original cost of your piece. 

The majority of jewelry that comes back for repair is not due to how it is made, but rather improper care of jewelry. Please understand that if we receive your piece and it needs repair due to how it was assembled, we will process it with no fee!

With proper care and careful wear, your Judith Bright jewelry should last a lifetime. If you do happen to need a repair, follow the steps below. If your jewelry arrived broken, please email gurus@judithbright.com.

REPAIR PROCESS:

1. Fill out the repair form. (don't forget to tell us your size!)

2. Bring your jewelry and form into a Judith Bright store or ship it to:
       P.O. Box 120219 Nashville, TN 37212

3. If you are shipping your item, we recommend using USPS Priority Mail or a private carrier like FedEx or UPS. Judith Bright is not responsible for shipping fees associated with mailing in your item.

4. Standard repairs can take up to 4 weeks. We offer an expedited repair service for those who need their repairs completed urgently. To accommodate these requests, we charge an additional rush fee of $30.00. Please note that this service is available on a case-by-case basis and is subject to approval. We assess each request individually to ensure that we can meet the revised timeline without compromising the quality of our work. If you require faster turnaround, please contact us at gurus@judithbright.com.

5. Once your repair is complete we will contact you for pick up at one of our stores or we will ship it back to you compliments of JB!

Thank you so much!

xx, JB Guru

If you lose one earring, don’t despair! We can sell you just one. Because items, gemstones, and techniques vary, we do ask that you send the old one into the Nashville studio so that we can make a match and clean it up for you. Please include the repair form with your jewelry as well as your return address and a phone number where we can easily reach you to when we call for your credit card number. The shipping back to you will be on us, as usual! Please allow up to 7-10 business days. 

Judith Bright Jewelry 

3820 Charlotte Ave. #126

Nashville, TN 37209

Our XL Hoops are hand-hammered and hand-formed. They are very delicate. Please handle with care. Resist the urge to pull on them or twist them. Be the most careful when you are removing them. We all wear them and when handled with care, they will retain their original shape. If yours have lost their shape, please return them and we will restore them to their original shape.

Our beads are made from real sandalwood. Sandalwood is rare and should be treated carefully. Please do not get them wet or sweaty as that will cause them to dry out and turn white. Imagine putting a glass of water on an unfinished table and how that creates a white ring. It’s the same process. If you find yours to be dried out, please send them back to the store or drop them by and we’ll refresh them with some sandalwood oils. If you find them losing their smell, put them in a ziplock bag overnight and their scent should be restored. You could also call our Nashville store to purchase sandalwood oil! Just be sure to use no more than one drop of oil!

Often people wear perfume and lotions and the beads take on that smell. If you wear them a lot - and we hope you do - they will definitely start to smell more like you!

They will also "get good" meaning they will become darker and shinier. The beads are strung on traditional elastic. The best way for the bracelets to retain their shape is for you to roll them off your arm. Resist pulling on them prior to removing them. Nothing will stretch them out faster.

Our eternally popular hoops close with a Y closure mechanism. The post through the ear clicks down into a Y shape. If it gets loose, please squeeze the bottom of the Y. If it’s too tight, simply put your fingernail down into the Y to loosen it up a bit. People who wear our posts tend to wear them all the time. They will get loose simply by repetition of wear. It’s a pretty straightforward process, but please feel free to contact us for an explanation if it is at all confusing.

We want you to love your jewelry—and wear it often. If it’s not quite right, no worries! Whether you’d prefer a different stone or metal, or simply changed your mind, we’re happy to help with an exchange or return. We want you to feel as good about your jewelry as you do about shopping with us. At Judith Bright, we see you as we do our BFF, our mom, and our sister, and you can expect to be treated as such!

Return & Exchange Policy-

• Returns: Full refunds are available within 30 days of your original purchase.
• Exchanges: We accept exchanges within 60 days of purchase.
• Jewelry must be unworn, in its original condition, preferably returned in the original packaging.
• A proof of purchase is required—either a receipt or the name of the original purchaser.
  

Please note that shipping and rush fees are non-refundable. Additionally, Judith Bright LLC reserves the right to deny returns that do not meet the stated return conditions. 

INITIATING A RETURN OR EXCHANGE

1. Download our Return and Exchanges form and fill out all info regarding your return or exchange.
2. Package the item(s) you are exchanging or returning (preferably in the same packaging you received). If you no longer have that, please make sure to package your jewelry in a padded envelope or a box to prevent any damage during transit. 
3. Email us at gurus@judithbright.com to receive a pre-paid shipping label.
4. Finally, drop the package in your mailbox or drop it off at your local post office.

Email gurus@judithbright.com if you have any questions or need assistance.

Thanks for checking out our core values! I believe that for a company to be successful, a company’s values have to align with the employee’s values. These have manifested over the years to the ten you see here.

The overall goal of Judith Bright Jewelry is to have a compassionate, supportive all-female work environment that allows us to create a beautiful and soulful handmade product that sustains us and our families. xx, jb

The company was founded by Judith Bright in Nashville, TN in 2005 following a lifelong passion for jewelry and design.

She learned some jewelry-making techniques at Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles and during a family Gap Year in Italy, took silversmithing & wax carving classes at Le Arti Orafe school in Florence. She and her family chose Nashville for the entrepreneur-friendly environment. She worked for 2 years teaching herself to make wire-wrapped jewelry and learning about materials and gemstones. She worked on her process and her design voice while selling jewelry from her basement.

Discovering a niche in the market during the recession, the timing was right for her brand of jewelry which is technically called "bridge jewelry". It bridges the gap between fashion and fine jewelry. The difference is in the affordable, but quality materials of semi-precious gemstones, 14K Gold-Filled & Sterling Silver metals and the method of jewelry-making involving securing gemstones with wire, not using heat or chemicals in the production process.

She launched her first website in 2007 and held an open studio on Fridays. She then moved to home shows in Nashville and in various cities across the country. She opened her first store in Nashville in 2010 and now has her flagship store in the 12 South neighborhood of Nashville and 1 store in Franklin, TN at The Factory. The company employs 5 full-time jewelry artisans and 7 Judith Bright jewelry gurus in sales, production, and management, along with our team of part-timers, seasonal sales associates, and college/high school interns. 

1964     Born Judith La Gorce in Washington, DC

1970     Discovers mom’s jewelry box, time stands still

1972     Unfounded fear that Mom’s jewelry box has been stolen, but later found under chaise where mom hid it from burglars (and Judith). Judith breathes huge sigh of relief.

1977     Relatives tire quickly of Judith’s ‘playing ring’ game: how many ways can one stack and combine rings on a finger.

1981-1989 After working as a candy-striper, Judith chooses nursing as her career. Graduates from Vanderbilt University Nursing School in Nashville, Tenn., Heads to LA to work with AIDS patients at Cedar’s Sinai Medical Center. Ends nursing career—too exhausting and sad—and lands job as production assistant on “Growing Pains,” exhausting & complete opposite of sad.

1990     Works at Disney for an Australian film director. Main job is to help director not call every female executive “Sheila.” Successfully accomplishes this goal.

1991     Marries man with an incredibly optimistic name: Will Bright. Little does she know that this will one day become a wonderful jewelry brand moniker as well.

1992     Lands wonder-job with Quincy Jones, and finally gets serious about work.

1997     Baby boy #1 is born.

1999    Baby boy #2 is born. Judith becomes President of Quincy’s publishing company.

2001     Baby boy #3 is born. Whew! Thoughts return to the simplicity of ‘playing ring.’

2002     Retires from Quincy Jones to chase dream career as a jewelry designer.

2003     Moves family to Florence, Italy to take big-time jewelry classes. Starts drinking wine at lunch in order to fit in. Unable to wear “European” sized jeans, she buys lots of scarves instead.

2004     Family settles in Nashville, TN and Judith turns 40.

2005     Sets up Judith Bright jewelry business, spends days sketching designs, sipping cappuccinos and waxing on poetically about peridots and citrine. Actually, spends days creating jewelry like a woman possessed; nights with toothpicks in eyes doing Internet research.

2007     Glass slipper finally fits, launches website, www.judithbright.com

2008-2009 Jewelry appears on network television programs, “Gossip Girl,” “Samantha Who?,” and “The New Adventures of Old Christine.”

2010  Opens Flagship Store in The Mall at the Green Hills, Nashville, TN Jewelry appears in the major film releases, “The Back-up Plan” on Jennifer Lopez and “The Rebound” on Catherine Zeta-Jones.

2011   JB Voted “Best Handmade Jewelry” by Nashville Scene Poll, “Top 3 New Retail Stores & Top 3 Jewelry Stores”. Jewelry appears on Carla Gugino in “Mr. Popper’s Penguins & Frances McDourmand in “This Must Be The Place”. Jewelry worn by cast of TV series “Happy Endings”.

2012  JB opens store in Atlanta. Jewelry worn by Meryl Streep in “Hope Springs” and by Abbie Cornish in “Seven Psychopaths”.

2013  JB jewelry featured on the CBS TV Show “Partners”. JB donates to many charities in 2013.

2014  Judith moves out of the Mall at Green Hills to a house in the 12 South neighborhood of Nashville. Jewelry appears in feature film “Lullaby” on Anne Archer & Jessica Brown Findlay. Voted Top 3 Jewelry stores in Nashville by the Nashville Scene Poll.

2015 Judith hires 3 more full-time employees, launches a brand new website.

2016  Judith hires more people and has jewelry featured in “Bad Moms” and “Lights Out”.

2017  Atlanta location moves to space three times the size and 10 times more beautiful and installs a jewelry maker there. Jewelry featured in Silicon Valley & Mozart in the Jungle.

2018  Procures a studio space for manufacturing in Nashville. Hires additional jewelry makers to crank out more jewelry. Jewelry appears in Oscar nominated film, Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, MO. Judith voted as a Nashville Business Journal “Woman of Influence”. Summits Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

2019  Judith travels to Israel, Hong Kong, and Croatia, Becomes the Community Chair for the Nashville Chapter of the Entrepreneur's Organization. Joins the Advisory board to the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Joins the McWhorter Circle at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Raced her boys down the slopes after Christmas. Her blue ski helmet ponytail was apparently very embarrassing to said boys.

2020  Things were going swimmingly, then COVID hit. Our stores were closed for 4 months. During that time, we said a sad goodbye to our Atlanta store and opened in Franklin, TN at The Factory. The JB team rallied and persevered. Judith named as Most Admired CEOs by The Nashville Business Journal.

2021  Life returns to almost normal, the stores are in full-swing and we are nominated as one of the best places to work in Nashville by the Nashville Business Journal. New designs are flowing and some archival pieces return. We open a new store with an open-studio concept at L&L Market in The Nations neighborhood in West Nashville.

2022  Judith becomes certified as an End-of-Life Doula by the Conscious Dying Institute and volunteers at Alive Hospice in Nashville. She embarks on the Leadership Nashville year-long cohort. Several designs emerged and innovations made on existing lines. 

2023 Judith joins the board of The Nashville Entrepreneur’s Organization as Co-Chair of Strategic Alliances. She also Co-Chairs the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s giving society: The McWhorter Circle as well as joins The Entrepreneur Center Board.

2024 Judith Co-Chairs the Prelude Party for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center Gala and travels to Singapore to represent Nashville’s EO Chapter at the annual Global Summit.

We are currently not hiring, but if you would like to send us your resume for future considerations, please email it to: gurus@judithbright.com. Shine Bright!