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In the general election held on November 17, 2007, Ulrich was defeated in a bid for the open District 5 seat on the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She polled 49,818 votes (48 percent) to Democrat Keith K. Guice's 54,550 (52 percent). The district includes seventeen parishes in north and central Louisiana. Guice, also of Monroe, carried the endorsement of the teacher organizations. He succeed the 15-year Democratic incumbent James Stafford. Guice led in eleven parishes. Ulrich prevailed in Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Rapides, Richland, and Union parishes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11172007/11172007_MultiParish.html|title=Louisiana general election returns, November 17, 2007|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>

In the general election held on November 17, 2007, Ulrich was defeated in a bid for the open District 5 seat on the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She polled 49,818 votes (48 percent) to Democrat Keith K. Guice's 54,550 (52 percent). The district includes seventeen parishes in north and central Louisiana. Guice, also of Monroe, carried the endorsement of the teacher organizations. He succeed the 15-year Democratic incumbent James Stafford. Guice led in eleven parishes. Ulrich prevailed in Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Rapides, Richland, and Union parishes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11172007/11172007_MultiParish.html|title=Louisiana general election returns, November 17, 2007|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>

In 2004, Ulrich was chairman of the Louisiana [[George W. Bush|Bush]]-[[Dick Cheney|Cheney]] presidential electors. She serves on the Monroe Historic Preservation Commission. She is a past vice president of the Garden District Neighborhood Alliance and past president of the Monroe Garden Club. In 2005, then [[U.S. Senator]] [[David Vitter]] nominated Ulrich to represent Monroe at the Business and Professional Women's Leadership Summit in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>Vitter for Senate.gov</ref> She resided in Monroe with her husband, Mark Burghardt Ulrich (born September 20, 1959).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-ulrich/markbulrich|title=Mark Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> Mark Ulrich died at the age of sixty in Monroe on March 16, 2020.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' March 16, 2020.</ref>

In 2004, Ulrich was chairman of the Louisiana [[George W. Bush|Bush]]-[[Dick Cheney|Cheney]] presidential electors. She serves on the Monroe Historic Preservation Commission. She is a past vice president of the Garden District Neighborhood Alliance and past president of the Monroe Garden Club. In 2005, then [[U.S. Senator]] [[David Vitter]] nominated Ulrich to represent Monroe at the Business and Professional Women's Leadership Summit in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>Vitter for Senate.gov</ref> She resided in Monroe with her husband, Mark Burghardt Ulrich (born September 20, 1959)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-ulrich/markbulrich|title=Mark Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> until his death in Monroe at the age of sixty on March 16, 2020.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' March 16, 2020.</ref>

In 1986, Ruth Laird married Mark Burghardt Ulrich, who attended Mississippi State University at Starkville and is the son of Christian Andrew Ulrich (1924-2007), a Monroe physician, the chief of staff at St. Francis Medical Center who trained at [[Mayo Clinic]] in [[Minnesota]],<ref>{{cite web|url=

In 1986, Ruth Laird married Mark Burghardt Ulrich, who attended Mississippi State University at Starkville and is the son of Christian Andrew Ulrich (1924-2007), a Monroe physician, the chief of staff at St. Francis Medical Center who trained at [[Mayo Clinic]] in [[Minnesota]],<ref>{{cite web|url=