Short answers, pulled from the story.
Bob Bledsaw and Bill Owen met with Tactical Studies Rules on the 17th of July 1976. This meeting marked the beginning of Judges Guild after Dave Arneson gave verbal approval for them to produce supplemental game materials.
The firm employed forty-two people at its peak in the early 1980s. Over two hundred fifty products sat in print during those years while fans flocked to the company for prolific product lines.
A foldout three-page heavy stock compilation of monsters and rules became known as Judge's Shield. That term later became standard for all subsequent similar products industry-wide.
Production values stagnated while the roleplaying games industry moved toward professional typesetting and full color art. The license to publish Advanced Dungeons & Dragons materials lapsed in 1982 and City-State of Tarantis received little notice from buyers.
His son Bob Bledsaw II inherited the company following his father's passing. Lost Man's Trail appeared in 2011 as the first original product in over twenty-five years.