Collection Summary

Creator: Judge James Hoge Ricks
Title: Addendum to Judge Ricks Papers [a]
Accession: MSS 85-14a
Parent Collection: The Papers of Judge James Hoge Ricks, 1916 - 1956
Description: 1 box (.3 linear ft.)
Location: SC - Basement
Photograph Collection: View 0 digitized photographs
Digitized Content: 0 objects
Use Restrictions: No restrictions

Collection Description & Arrangement

 

In October of 2012, Gail Warren, State Law Librarian, Supreme of Court of Virginia, donated this small collection to be added to the Judge Ricks Papers.  The collection was given to them by Judge Angela Roberts that received the papers from R. Arnold Ricks, Judge Ricks’ son.  Most of the papers pertain to a Virginia Advisory Legislative Council Committee to Study Senate Bill 175, to establish a statewide system of juvenile courts in 1949.  There is also some correspondence and speeches.

The collection was processed by Catherine OBrion, Archivist, Virginia State Law Library.

Acquisition Information

Date Received 2012
Donor Information Gail Warren, State Law Librarian, Supreme of Court of Virginia

Content List

Box 1

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council Committee to Study Bill 175, report on child welfare (House Document No. 11), 1944

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, drafts of bill, 1947

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, minutes, 1949 May 6 and 7

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, agenda for public meeting, 1949 Jun. 4

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, minutes, 1949 Aug. 11

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Judge Paul Alexander, Court of Common Pleas, Division of Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court, Toledo, Ohio, 1949 Mar. 9

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from George Smith, Vice President, National Probation and Parole Association, 1949, May 16

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Judge W.W. Moore, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Danville, Va., 1949 Jun. 1

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Judge W.W. Moore, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Petersburg, Va., 1949 Jun. 13

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Judge Earl L. Abbott, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Clifton Forge, Va., 1949 Jun. 14

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Roscoe Pound, President, National Probation and Parole Board, 1949 Jul. 5

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from League of Local Welfare Executives, 1949 Aug. 1

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, memo from Charles Baber, 1949

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, redraft memo and notes, 1949 June and July

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, survey, 1949 July 21

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, opinion poll, Virginia Conference on Social Work, 1949 Aug. 1

 

  • Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, draft report, 1949

 

  • Speech or essay, "The Community Fund," undated (3 p.)

 

  • Article written for the American Federationist,"The Juvenile Court and its Contribution to Child Welfare," 1931, (7 p., single-space, typed)

 

  • Virginia State Bar Association, Committee on Judiciary and Judicial Salaries, letter from W. Coxe, 1949 Jun 9

 

  • Virginia Department of Welfare Institutions, report, "Commitments to County and City Jails and City Jail Farms," 1948 Dec.

 

  • Program, University of Richmond School of Law Symposia Series, "Centennial of the Juvenile Court," 1999

 

  • Letter, R. Arnold Ricks to Robert E. Shepherd, T.C. Williams School of Law, 1999 Mar. 24

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