MSS 85-14

The Papers of James Hoge Ricks

Papers

· Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections

Dates

Creation: 1916-1956

Extent

4 Linear feet

Abstract

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Biographical / Historical Note

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.

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Acquisition Information

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.

Preferred Citation

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

Physical Description

This collections consists of 13 boxes.1 arbitrary_unit

Collection Contents

File [Biographical and Legal Notes] 1
File Addresses 1
File Addresses and Historical Material 1
File Articles by Ricks 1
File American Birth Control League 1
File American Crime Study Commission 1
File Bootblacks 1
File Cadet Corps 1
File Capital Punishment 1
File Charles T. Booth (Charity Fund) 1
File Boys Club of Richmond 1
File Child Welfare League of America 1
File Child Welfare Conference 1
File Children's Memorial Clinic 1
File City Charter Commission of Richmond 1
File Civil Justices Court 1
File Clippings 1
File Colored Playgrounds Recreation Association 1
File Committee on Militarism in Education 2
File Community Council of Richmond 2
File Community Fund of Richmond 2
File Confidentiality of Records 2
File Court-Miscellaneous 2
File Crimes-Causes and Effects 2
File F. Lawton Crutchfield 2
File Judge John A. Crutchfield 2
File Department of Justice-John W. Andrews 2
File Detention Home 2
File Disarmament-Vinson Bill 2
File FBI-J. Edgar Hoover 2
File Friends Association of Colored Children 2
File Girl Scouts of Richmond 2
File Governor's Conference on Child Labor 2
File Greek American Association 2
File Interracial Commission 2
File Juvenile Court Anniversary 3
File Juvenile Court Charity Fund 3
File Juvenile Court Committee-Virginia Conference of Social Work 3
File Juvenile Court Memoranda 3
File Juvenile Court-Photos, Building Plan 3
File Juvenile Court Rules 3
File Juvenile Domestic Relations Court Judges 3
File Juvenile Court Survey 3
File Law and Court Decisions 3
File Mayor's Advisory Committee Survey on Juvenile Court 4
File National Association of Juvenile Court Judges 4
File Norfolk Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court 4
File Refresher Course - Juvenile Court Judges 4
File Roanoke - Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court 4
File Survey-Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court 4
File Virginia Council of Juvenile Court Judges 4
File Miscellaneous Juvenile Courts 4
File Juvenile Delinquency Conference 5
File Juvenile Protective Association 5
File A. S. Macfarlane 5
File Maryland Industrial Training School for Boys 5
File Re: Joseph T. Martin Dinner 5
File Mellon Foundation 5
File Joe Mickens Case 5
File Re: Mothers' Pension 5
File National Child Labor Law 5
File National Children's Bureau 5
File National Committee for Mental Hygiene 5
File National Conference of Social Work 5
File National Conference on Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency 5
File National Council for the Prevention of War 5
File National Crime Commission 5
File National Probation Association 5
File Re: NRA Newspapers Publishers' Codes 6
File Navy Recruiting 6
File Negro Crime Commission 6
File Negro Welfare Survey 6
File New Legislation 6
File New York School of Social Work 6
File Paternity Legislation 6
File Police Women – Washington 6
File Probation and Parole 6
File Probation Bill – Federal 6
File Re: Prohibition and Liquor Control Law 6
File Racial Integrity Law and Indians 6
File Report of medical work completed in two Detention Homes during the month of January, 1946 6
File Richmond Bar Association 6
File Richmond City Attorney 6
File Richmond City Council Finance Committee 6
File Richmond City Public Schools 7
File Franklin D. Roosevelt 7
File Runaways 7
File Shrubbery Hill Parental School 7
Series Social Service Bureau 7
File Trial Justices Association 7
File Virginia Advisory Council 7
File Virginia Conference of Social Work 7
File Virginia Governors - Price, Peery, Pollard 7
File Virginia Governors - Darden and Tuck 7
File Virginia League for Planned Parenthood 7
File Virginia State Bar Association 7
File Visitors 7
File United Nations 7
File WPA - General Correspondence 7
File WPA - Probation Project 7
File Orville Lee Whetzel 7
File YMCA & YWCA, Richmond, Virginia - correspondence 7
File Miscellany – miscellaneous correspondence 7
File Printed Materials 7
File Applications-Deputy Clerk 8
File Applications - Miscellaneous Positions 8
File Applications – Referee 8
File Applications – Miscellaneous 8
File Applications - Chief Probation Officer and Superintendent of Detention Home. Correspondence 8
File Applications-Intake Officer 8
File Applications Chief Probation Officer; Supt. of Detention Home 8
File Applications - Counselor for Negro Children 8
File Applications-Colored 8
File Applications 9
File ABC [Alcoholic Beverage Control] Board – correspondence, newspaper clippings 9
File Air-rifles and guns – correspondence 9
File Bank Statements 9
File Bethany Home [of Richmond] – correspondence 9
File Boarding Houses for Children – correspondence; “Concerning the Boarding Home for Babies and Their Mothers” (undated) 9
File Boy Scouts of America – correspondence, directories 9
File Boys' Home-Covington, Virginia- correspondence 9
File Central Application Bureau- correspondence 9
File Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company - correspondence 9
File Children's Aid Society of Richmond- correspondence 9
File Children's Home Society of Virginia - correspondence 9
File Church and Social Service Work – correspondence re closer cooperation between Richmond’s churches and the Community Fund 9
File State Council on Social Agencies – correspondence 9
File Crime Prevention Bureau of Richmond – correspondence 9
File Detention Home Medical Reports 9
File Detention Home Rules and Regulations 9
File Detention Home - Staff and Advisory Committee – correspondence and some minutes 9
File Directories - 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 Coun 9
File Detention Home Repairs – correspondence 10
File Detention Home - Application for Assistant Matrons, Medical Inspector 10
File Driver Permits – lists, notes 10
File Estimates for work to be done to the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court – correspondence, brochures 10
File Extradition [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 a 10
File Family Service Society – correspondence 10
File Mrs. Frances H. Fishburne (Charity Fund) – correspondence 10
File Hanover Industrial School - correspondence 10
File Home 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” 10
File Junius Morris Hord – correspondence re recommendation 10
File William T. Jones [Richmond police officer, bailiff of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court] – correspondence, newspaper clippings 10
File Juvenile Court Insurance - correspondence 10
File Juvenile Court – Automobiles – correspondence and report re court cars 11
File Juvenile Court Staff-Payroll 11
File Magistrates – memoranda 11
File Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth – correspondence and brochure 11
File Marriage Counseling Service – Pre-Marriage and Marriage Counseling Service – correspondence, brochure 11
File Medical College of Virginia – correspondence 11
File Memorial Guidance Clinic – correspondence, by-laws 11
File Memorial Home for Girls - correspondence 11
File Carroll R. Minor [probation officer] – correspondence 11
File Norfolk Community Fund - correspondence 11
File National Youth Organization – correspondence 11
File Committee 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 11
File Parents' Council – correspondence with George B. Zehmer, director of UVa Extension Division re Parents’ Council of Virginia. Constitution; Memorandum, Minutes of the First Meeting 11
File Parental School – correspondence 11
File Pensions - correspondence 11
File Prisoners Aid Association of Maryland – correspondence 11
File Probation Officers – Applications and requests – memoranda, correspondence 11
File Public 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. 1 11
File Ration Books - correspondence 11
File Reading 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 11
File Miscellaneous Receipts 11
File Committee on Records and Statistics – correspondence, instructions 11
File Requistions 12
File Retirement System – memorandum, correspondence 12
File Richmond Building Inspector - correspondence 12
File Richmond Chief of Police – correspondence 12
File Richmond City Comptroller – correspondence 12
File Richmond City Council – correspondence 12
File Richmond City Home – correspondence 12
File Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney T. Gray Haddon – correspondence 12
File Richmond Council of Churches - letter 12
File Richmond Council of Social Agencies – correspondence, memoranda, reports, by-laws 12
File Richmond Curfew Ordinance – correspondence 12
File Richmond Employment Bureau – correspondence 12
File Richmond First Club – correspondence, memoranda 12
File Richmond Home for Boys - correspondence 12
File Richmond Mayors – correspondence and proclamations 12
File Richmond Ordinances – correspondence, joint resolutions 12
File Richmond Parks and Playgrounds - correspondence 12
File Richmond Public Safety – correspondence 13
File Richmond Public Works – correspondence 13
File Richmond Social Service Bureau – correspondence 13
File Richmond Social Service Exchange - correspondence 13
File Russell Sage Foundation – correspondence, brochures 13
File Salaries - Court Officers – correspondence 13
File St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, Baltimore, Maryland – correspondence 13
File Salem Baptist Orphanage – Baptist Orphanage of Virginia, Salem, VA – correspondence, application for admission 13
File Salvation Army – Evangeline Booth Home and Hospital or Salvation Army report 13
File School Attendance Officer - Richmond 13
File Stockdon, Wallace I. Jr. – correspondence and Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Probation Department Bulletins (1925-1926) 13
File Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. – correspondence and notices re the Government Printing Office 13
File Travelers Aid Society - correspondence 13
File Trial Justices - Counties and Cities 13
File Unemployment 13
File United States Federation of Justice 13
File Venereal Disease Control 13
File Virginia Attorney General 13
File Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts 13
File Virginia - Commissioner of Labor 13
File Virginia – Comptroller 13
File Virginia Conference Orphanage 13
File Virginia Department of Public Welfare 13
File Virginia State Penitentiary 13
File Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs 13
File Virginia Transit Company 13
File Virginia Unemployment Compensation Commission 13
File Virginia Welfare Council 13
File Virginia - Western State Hospital 13
File Visiting Teachers 13
File War Memorial 13
File William Byrd Community House 13
File William and Mary College 13
File Miscellaneous 13
Series Addendum to Judge Ricks Papers [a]
- File Virginia Advisory Legislative Council Report on child welfare (House Doc. No 11) 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council Committee to Study Bill 175, report on child welfare (House Document No. 11) 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, drafts of bill 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, minutes 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, agenda for public meeting 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, minutes 14
- File 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 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from George Smith, Vice President, National Probation and Parole Association 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Judge W.W. Moore, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Danville, Va 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Judge W.W. Moore, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, Petersburg, Va 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Judge Earl L. Abbott, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Clifton Forge, Va 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from Roscoe Pound, President, National Probation and Parole Board 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, letter from League of Local Welfare Executives 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, memo from Charles Baber 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, redraft memo and notes 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, survey 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, opinion poll, Virginia Conference on Social Work 14
- File Virginia Advisory Legal Council, Committee to Study Bill 175, draft report 14
- File Speech or essay, "The Community Fund," undated (3 p.) 14
- File Article written for the American Federationist,"The Juvenile Court and its Contribution to Child Welfare," (7 p., single-space, typed) 14
- File Virginia State Bar Association, Committee on Judiciary and Judicial Salaries, letter from W. Coxe 14
- File Virginia Department of Welfare Institutions, report, "Commitments to County and City Jails and City Jail Farms," 14
- File Program, University of Richmond School of Law Symposia Series, "Centennial of the Juvenile Court," 14
- File Letter, R. Arnold Ricks to Robert E. Shepherd, T.C. Williams School of Law 14

Subjects

Ricks, Jame Hoge, 1886-1958