Jodi Anderson

{{short description|American athlete}}

Judith ("Jodi") Anderson (born November 10, 1957, in Chicago, Illinois) is a retired heptathlete from the United States. While attending college at California State University, Northridge,{{cite news |last=Ortega |first=John |date=September 11, 1994 |title=Cal State Northridge All-time Track And Field Leaders |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-11-sp-37398-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=January 2, 2019 }} Anderson qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team, but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.{{cite book|last1=Caroccioli|first1=Tom|last2=Caroccioli|first2=Jerry|title=Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games|year=2008|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=Highland Park, IL|isbn=978-0942257403|pages=243–253}} She set the world's best year performance in the women's long jump in 1981. She did compete for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}