Judith used as a specific example in early church epistle to Corinthian church (I Clement, chapter 55)

I found this online at an early church/patristics source site:

"Many women also, being strengthened by the grace of God, have performed numerous manly exploits. The blessed Judith, when her city was besieged, asked of the elders permission to go forth into the camp of the strangers; and, exposing herself to danger, she went out for the love which she bare to her country and people then besieged; and the Lord delivered Holofernes into the hands of a woman." (Judith 8:30)

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1010.htm