John “Jack” Ritchie, III began and ended his long, outstanding career in legal education at the University of Virginia. A member of "The Celebrated Class of '27," he was book review editor of the Virginia Law Review and member of Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, the Raven Society, the Jefferson Literary Society, Alpha Kappa Psi, and Omicron Delta Kappa. In 1931 he earned a J.S.D. from Yale University. The Papers of John Ritchie document his years at Virginia from 1972 until his death in 1988.