The Papers of James Hoge Ricks

MSS 85-14

The Papers of James Hoge Ricks

Overview

Topical files (1916-1956) related to Judge Ricks service as first judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Richmond, Virginia, and his involvement in civic affairs and social movements primarily focused on disadvantage children.

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Dates
 1916-1956 [Inclusive]
Extents
 4 Linear Feet

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The Ricks Papers, 1916-1956, consist of 4 shelf feet of selected correspondence and records of the first judge of the Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. This collection of correspondence files and materials was selected from the much larger main files of the court by graduate student George B. Curtis. In accordance with state law requiring confidentiality of case records, all case materials have been separated and returned to the court.

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    Physical Description

    This collections consists of 13 boxes.<extent>1 arbitrary_unit</extent>

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    There are no restrictions.

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    Preferred Citation

    The Papers of James Hoge Ricks, 1916-1956, MSS 85-14, Box Number, Special Collections, University of Virginia Law Library.

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    Biographical / Historical

    A native of Caroline County and a life-long Quaker, James Hoge Ricks (1886-1958) studied at Guilford College in North Carolina (A.B, 1905) and T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond (LL.B., 1908). He was admitted to the Bar in 1909, and became clerk and parole officer of the Juvenile Division of Police Court in 1912.

    In 1916, Ricks became a judge of the new court at age twenty-nine, and held the position until his retirement in 1956. The juvenile court movement was an outgrowth of the Progressive era, and throughout his life, Judge Ricks remained active in various social movements spawned by "humanitarian progressives" and the National Conference of Social Work (prior to 1917, the National Conference of Charities and Corrections).

    Ricks was a founder and vice-president of the National Conference of Juvenile Court Judges, an organizer and officer of the Richmond Community Fund, and twice president of the National Probation Association.

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    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Alderman library received the collection on October 29, 1973, from William T. Eads, Clerk of Court, Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, 2000 Mecklenburg Street, Richmond, Virginia. It was transferred to the Law Library from Alderman on September 9, 1985.

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file[Biographical and Legal Notes], 1974, n.d.MSS 85-14, Box 1
Richmond Juvenile Court
Ricks, J. Hoge, Judge 1926, 1935, 1940
fileAddresses, 1924-1940, n.d.MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileAddresses and Historical Material, ca. 1930-1945MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileArticles by Ricks, ca. 1928MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileAmerican Birth Control League, 1925-1938MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileAmerican Crime Study Commission , 1927-1929MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileBootblacks, 1938-1926MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileCadet Corps, 1929-1935MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileCapital Punishment, 1921-1935MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileCharles T. Booth (Charity Fund), 1936-1944MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileBoys Club of Richmond , 1925-1933MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileChild Welfare League of America, 1925-1937MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileChild Welfare Conference, n.d.MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileChildren's Memorial Clinic, 1938-1942MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileCity Charter Commission of Richmond, 1947MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileCivil Justices Court, 1926, 1934MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileClippings, 1927, 1941-1946MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileColored Playgrounds Recreation Association, 1925-1946MSS 85-14, Box 1
fileCommittee on Militarism in Education, 1925-[1934?]MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileCommunity Council of Richmond, 1940-1948MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileCommunity Fund of Richmond, 1943-1946MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileConfidentiality of Records, 1944MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileCourt-Miscellaneous, 1944-1945MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileCrimes-Causes and Effects, 1936-1940MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileF. Lawton Crutchfield, 1932-1936MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileJudge John A. Crutchfield, 1930MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileDepartment of Justice-John W. Andrews, 1946-1947MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileDetention Home, 1927-1938MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileDisarmament-Vinson Bill, 1934MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileFBI-J. Edgar Hoover, 1939-1940MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileFriends Association of Colored Children, 1944-1948MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileGirl Scouts of Richmond, 1938-1943MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileGovernor's Conference on Child Labor, 1927-1935MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileGreek American Association, 1923MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileInterracial Commission, 1929-1939MSS 85-14, Box 2
fileJuvenile Court Anniversary, 1941MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileJuvenile Court Charity Fund, 1929-1946MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileJuvenile Court Committee-Virginia Conference of Social Work, 1948-1950MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileJuvenile Court Memoranda, 1942-1944MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileJuvenile Court-Photos, Building Plan, n.d.MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileJuvenile Court Rules, 1923-1945MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileJuvenile Domestic Relations Court Judges, 1932-1945MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileJuvenile Court Survey, 1941MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileLaw and Court Decisions, 1919-1950, n.d.MSS 85-14, Box 3
fileMayor's Advisory Committee Survey on Juvenile Court, 1940-1944MSS 85-14, Box 4
fileNational Association of Juvenile Court Judges, 1936-1953MSS 85-14, Box 4
fileNorfolk Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, 1926-1946MSS 85-14, Box 4
fileRefresher Course - Juvenile Court Judges, 1946MSS 85-14, Box 4
fileRoanoke - Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, 1937-1948MSS 85-14, Box 4
fileSurvey-Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, ca. 1925, 1926MSS 85-14, Box 4
fileVirginia Council of Juvenile Court Judges, 1945-1951MSS 85-14, Box 4
fileMiscellaneous Juvenile Courts, 1936-1945MSS 85-14, Box 4
fileJuvenile Delinquency Conference, 1946MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileJuvenile Protective Association, 1926MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileA. S. Macfarlane, 1929-1938MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileMaryland Industrial Training School for Boys, 1923MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileRe: Joseph T. Martin Dinner, ca. 1933MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileMellon Foundation, 1949-1952MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileJoe Mickens Case, 1941-1942MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileRe: Mothers' Pension, 1927-1936MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileNational Child Labor Law, 1925-1935MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileNational Children's Bureau, 1930-1944MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileNational Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1921-1942MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileNational Conference of Social Work , 1932-1947MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileNational Conference on Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, 1946MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileNational Council for the Prevention of War, 1947-1950MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileNational Crime Commission, 1927-1932MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileNational Probation Association, 1930-1948MSS 85-14, Box 5
fileRe: NRA Newspapers Publishers' Codes, 1933MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileNavy Recruiting, 1932-1940MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileNegro Crime Commission, 1941MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileNegro Welfare Survey, 1928-1937MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileNew Legislation, 1924-1948MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileNew York School of Social Work , 1925-1933MSS 85-14, Box 6
filePaternity Legislation, 1919-1941MSS 85-14, Box 6
filePolice Women – Washington , 1926-1928MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileProbation and Parole , 1938-1942MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileProbation Bill – Federal, 1934-1941MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileRe: Prohibition and Liquor Control Law, 1929-1937MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileRacial Integrity Law and Indians, 1930MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileReport of medical work completed in two Detention Homes during the month of January, 1946 , 1946-01MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileRichmond Bar Association, 1937-1948MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileRichmond City Attorney, 1933-1948MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileRichmond City Council Finance Committee, 1932-1948MSS 85-14, Box 6
fileRichmond City Public Schools, 1935-1947MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileFranklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1935MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileRunaways, 1943MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileShrubbery Hill Parental School, 1925-1927MSS 85-14, Box 7
seriesSocial Service Bureau, 1941-1944MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileTrial Justices Association, 1934-1945MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileVirginia Advisory Council, 1935, 1945, 1949MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileVirginia Conference of Social Work, 1926-1947MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileVirginia Governors - Price, Peery, Pollard, 1932-1941MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileVirginia Governors - Darden and Tuck, 1942-1948MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileVirginia League for Planned Parenthood, 1947MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileVirginia State Bar Association, 1930-1945MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileVisitors, 1940MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileUnited Nations , 1948-1949MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileWPA - General Correspondence, 1939-1941MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileWPA - Probation Project, 1937-1939MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileOrville Lee Whetzel, 1946MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileYMCA & YWCA, Richmond, Virginia - correspondence, 1945-1948MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileMiscellany – miscellaneous correspondence, 1936-1947MSS 85-14, Box 7
filePrinted Materials, 1911-1942MSS 85-14, Box 7
fileApplications-Deputy Clerk, 1930-1947MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications - Miscellaneous Positions, 1943-1948MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications – Referee, 1944-1946MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications – Miscellaneous, ca. 1944-1946MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications - Chief Probation Officer and Superintendent of Detention Home. Correspondence, 1947MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications-Intake Officer, 1943-1945MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications Chief Probation Officer; Supt. of Detention Home, 1943-1945MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications - Counselor for Negro Children, 1943-1945MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications-Colored, 1941-1943MSS 85-14, Box 8
fileApplications, 1940-1945MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileABC [Alcoholic Beverage Control] Board – correspondence, newspaper clippings, 1934-1948MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileAir-rifles and guns – correspondence, 1927-1934MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileBank Statements, 1931-1954MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileBethany Home [of Richmond] – correspondence, 1935-1936MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileBoarding Houses for Children – correspondence; “Concerning the Boarding Home for Babies and Their Mothers” (undated), 1921, 1933-1934MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileBoy Scouts of America – correspondence, directories, 1924-1925MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileBoys' Home-Covington, Virginia- correspondence , 1936-1944MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileCentral Application Bureau- correspondence , 1939MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileChesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company - correspondence, 1943MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileChildren's Aid Society of Richmond- correspondence , 1940-1944MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileChildren's Home Society of Virginia - correspondence, 1940-1944MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileChurch and Social Service Work – correspondence re closer cooperation between Richmond’s churches and the Community Fund , 1937MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileState Council on Social Agencies – correspondence , 1925-1935MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileCrime Prevention Bureau of Richmond – correspondence, 1937-1947MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileDetention Home Medical Reports, 1941-1954MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileDetention Home Rules and Regulations, 1934-1953MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileDetention Home - Staff and Advisory Committee – correspondence and some minutes, 1940-1953MSS 85-14, Box 9
fileDirectories - Social Workers, Probation Officers – Purcell-Guild, June: Manual for Virginia Social Workers, Richmond, Virginia, Published by The Council of Social Agencies, 1926; Directory of Social Agencies, Richmond, Virginia 1928, Published by The CounMSS 85-14, Box 9
fileDetention Home Repairs – correspondence , 1940-1948MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileDetention Home - Application for Assistant Matrons, Medical Inspector, 1931-1947MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileDriver Permits – lists, notes, 1927-1946MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileEstimates for work to be done to the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court – correspondence, brochures, 1939-1942MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileExtradition [Uniform Extradition Act] – correspondence; Commonwealth of Virginia Applications for Requisitions for Fugitives from Justice. Requirements and Forms to be Observed and Followed Issued by the Governor’s Office. Richmond, Division of Purchase aMSS 85-14, Box 10
fileFamily Service Society – correspondence , 1942-1947MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileMrs. Frances H. Fishburne (Charity Fund) – correspondence , 1937-1938MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileHanover Industrial School - correspondence, 1945-1948MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileHome Owners' Loan Corporation – correspondence, applications forms, brochure: Relief for Distressed Home Owners, An Outline of the nature, purposes and provisions of the “Home Owners” Loan Act of 1933”, 1933-1934MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileJunius Morris Hord – correspondence re recommendation, 1932-1937MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileWilliam T. Jones [Richmond police officer, bailiff of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court] – correspondence, newspaper clippings, 1933-1941MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileJuvenile Court Insurance - correspondence, 1926-1946MSS 85-14, Box 10
fileJuvenile Court – Automobiles – correspondence and report re court cars , 1929, 1953MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileJuvenile Court Staff-Payroll, 1927-1946MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileMagistrates – memoranda , 1939-1944MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileManassas Industrial School for Colored Youth – correspondence and brochure, 1935MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileMarriage Counseling Service – Pre-Marriage and Marriage Counseling Service – correspondence, brochure, 1948-1952MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileMedical College of Virginia – correspondence , 1934-1945MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileMemorial Guidance Clinic – correspondence, by-laws, 1947-1948MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileMemorial Home for Girls - correspondence, 1937-1944MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileCarroll R. Minor [probation officer] – correspondence , 1936-1937MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileNorfolk Community Fund - correspondence, 1934MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileNational Youth Organization – correspondence , 1936-1943MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileCommittee on Organization of Social Forces – letter and Summary Report on Venereal Diseases in Richmond based on Survey made by the United States Public Health Service , 1937MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileParents' Council – correspondence with George B. Zehmer, director of UVa Extension Division re Parents’ Council of Virginia. Constitution; Memorandum, Minutes of the First Meeting, 1928MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileParental School – correspondence , 1930-1931MSS 85-14, Box 11
filePensions - correspondence, 1942-1944MSS 85-14, Box 11
filePrisoners Aid Association of Maryland – correspondence , 1930-1931MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileProbation Officers – Applications and requests – memoranda, correspondence, 1939-1946MSS 85-14, Box 11
filePublic Welfare, Published Monthly by the State Board of Public Welfare, Richmond, Virginia: Vol. 4, No. 3 (March 1927); Vol. 9, No. 4 (April 1931); Vol. 10, No. 8 (August 1932); Vol. 10, No. 12 (December 1932); Vol. 11, No. 8 (August 1933); Vol. 14, No. 1MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileRation Books - correspondence, 1943MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileReading Lists: Alexander, Paul W.: “Rebuilding the Juvenile Court” (undated); “Books selected for children for their special moral qualities”, compiled by The Children’s Department of the St. Louis Public Library (April 1922); “Bibliography for Probation MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileMiscellaneous Receipts, 1944-1946MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileCommittee on Records and Statistics – correspondence, instructions, 1924, n.d.MSS 85-14, Box 11
fileRequistions, 1941-1943MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRetirement System – memorandum, correspondence, 1944-1945MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Building Inspector - correspondence, 1934-1945MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Chief of Police – correspondence , 1943-1948MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond City Comptroller – correspondence , 1931-1946MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond City Council – correspondence , 1931-1948MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond City Home – correspondence , 1944MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Commonwealth's Attorney T. Gray Haddon – correspondence , 1942-1944MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Council of Churches - letter, 1925MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Council of Social Agencies – correspondence, memoranda, reports, by-laws , 1925-1946MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Curfew Ordinance – correspondence, 1923-1944MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Employment Bureau – correspondence , 1934MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond First Club – correspondence, memoranda, 1953-1954MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Home for Boys - correspondence, 1937, 1946MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Mayors – correspondence and proclamations, 1942-1948MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Ordinances – correspondence, joint resolutions , 1934-1948MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Parks and Playgrounds - correspondence, 1931-1941MSS 85-14, Box 12
fileRichmond Public Safety – correspondence , 1941-1945MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileRichmond Public Works – correspondence , 1933-1948MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileRichmond Social Service Bureau – correspondence , 1941-1944MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileRichmond Social Service Exchange - correspondence, 1926-1949MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileRussell Sage Foundation – correspondence, brochures, 1925MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileSalaries - Court Officers – correspondence , 1922-1923MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileSt. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, Baltimore, Maryland – correspondence , 1925-1931MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileSalem Baptist Orphanage – Baptist Orphanage of Virginia, Salem, VA – correspondence, application for admission, 1937MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileSalvation Army – Evangeline Booth Home and Hospital or Salvation Army report, 1925MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileSchool Attendance Officer - Richmond, 1944-1947MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileStockdon, Wallace I. Jr. – correspondence and Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Probation Department Bulletins (1925-1926), 1925-1944MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileSuperintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. – correspondence and notices re the Government Printing Office, 1935MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileTravelers Aid Society - correspondence, 1933-1943MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileTrial Justices - Counties and Cities , 1937-ca. 1940MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileUnemployment , ca. 1932MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileUnited States Federation of Justice, 1928-1930MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVenereal Disease Control, 1945MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia Attorney General , 1931-1947MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia Auditor of Public Accounts , 1942MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia - Commissioner of Labor , 1932-1947MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia – Comptroller, 1939-1943MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia Conference Orphanage , 1940-1943MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia Department of Public Welfare, 1944-1948MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia State Penitentiary, 1936-1942MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1936MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia Transit Company , 1941-1946MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia Unemployment Compensation Commission , 1937-1938MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia Welfare Council , 1935-1946MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVirginia - Western State Hospital, 1935MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileVisiting Teachers , 1932-1933MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileWar Memorial , 1953-1954MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileWilliam Byrd Community House , 1928-1944MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileWilliam and Mary College, 1929-1946MSS 85-14, Box 13
fileMiscellaneous, 1920-1949MSS 85-14, Box 13
seriesAddendum to Judge Ricks Papers [a], 1931-1999
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