Nah, just someone with shares in Halliburton.

The Judge is Moby Dick, he is everything in this material world and he is nothing–the void, suggested by his weight as given in the novel on the blank page (his weight computed in pounds and correlated with the page number equals the only blank page in the novel, as Rick Wallach so shrewdly pointed out long ago).  Then of course there is the gnostic take, the Archon:

http://www.metahistory.org/gnostique/archonfiles/AlienIntrusion.php

Supported by the gnostic references in the novel.

There are those who side with the Nietzsche (Mencken translation) interpretation of the Judge, as expounded by philosophy major and author Shane Schimpf in A READER’S GUIDE TO BLOOD MERIDIAN.

Of course, what we believe is that the Judge is all of these and more, while uncannily suggested by the real Judge Holden in the cryptic memoirs of the very real General Samuel Chamberlain (who in turn is suggested by McCarthy as the veteran who escapes the gang–with the sobriquet, Chambers).

In the ghostly almost ecoplastic and shape-shifting Judge Holden, fact melds with fiction which is welded by the spirituality that some readers see in the novel.  Want to see how?  The best thing you can do is to read John Sepich’s NOTES ON BLOOD MERIDIAN which is available at the bookshop on this site, along with a wealth of other Cormac McCarthy crit-lit.