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'''Ruth Laird Ulrich''' (born June 6, 1962)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/ruth-ulrich/e768742065738|title=Ruth Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> is a former [[Republican National Committee]]woman for [[Louisiana]].  

'''Ruth Laird Ulrich''' (born June 6, 1962)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/ruth-ulrich/e768742065738|title=Ruth Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> is a former [[Republican National Committee]]woman for [[Louisiana]].  

A former resident of Oxford, [[Mississippi]], Ulrich is a former radio producer, writer, and sometimes on-air replacement for [[conservative]] [[radio]] talk show host [[Moon Griffon]] (pronounced GRE FONN), who then broadcast statewide from his studio in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana; Griffon since moved his operation to [[Lafayette]], Louisiana. On February 23, 2008, Ulrich was elected as national committeewoman, a position which automatically made her a member of the Republican National Committee. She succeeded former State Representative Kay Kellogg Katz, also of Monroe, as the state's national committeewoman.  

A former resident of Oxford, [[Mississippi]], Ulrich is a former radio producer, writer, and sometimes on-air replacement for [[conservative]] [[radio]] talk show host [[Moon Griffon]] (pronounced GRE FONN), who then broadcast statewide from his studio in [[Monroe, Louisiana|Monroe]] in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana; Griffon since moved his operation to [[Lafayette]], Louisiana. On February 23, 2008, Ulrich was elected as national committeewoman, a position which automatically made her a member of the Republican National Committee. She succeeded former State Representative [[Kay Katz|Kay Kellogg Katz]], also of Monroe, as the state's national committeewoman.  

In 2012, Ulrich lost her Representative District 16 seat on the Republican State Central Committee to former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, also of Monroe, by a vote of 620 (40.4 percent) to 913 (59.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/03242012/03242012_37.html|title=Louisiana primary election returns, March 24, 2012|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>

In 2012, Ulrich lost her Representative District 16 seat on the Republican State Central Committee to former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, also of Monroe, by a vote of 620 (40.4 percent) to 913 (59.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/03242012/03242012_37.html|title=Louisiana primary election returns, March 24, 2012|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>  

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, who was born in Monroe on September 20, 1959, and<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-ulrich/markbulrich|title=Mark Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> resided there until his death at the age of sixty on March 14, 2020.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' March 16, 2020.</ref> The couple married in 1986 and had a daughter, Laura. Acording to his obituary, Mark Ulrich attended the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford. His parents were Christian Andrew Ulrich (1924-2007), a Monroe physician and the chief of staff at St. Francis Medical Center who trained at [[Mayo Clinic]] in [[Minnesota]],<ref>{{cite web|url=

Ulrich and her husband, Mark Burghardt Ulrich (September 20, 1959 &ndash; March 14, 2020), resided in Monroe.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/mark-ulrich/markbulrich|title=Mark Ulrich|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}}</ref> resided there until his death at the age of sixty on March 14, 2020.<ref>''The Moon Griffon Show,'' March 16, 2020.</ref> The couple married in 1986 and had a daughter, Laura. Acording to his obituary, Mark Ulrich, a Monroe native,  attended the [[University of Mississippi]] at Oxford. His parents were Christian Andrew Ulrich (1924-2007), a Monroe physician and the chief of staff at St. Francis Medical Center who trained at [[Mayo Clinic]] in [[Minnesota]],<ref>{{cite web|url=

https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Ulrich&GSfn=Christian&GSmn=Andrew&GSby=1924&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=40917236&df=all&|title=Dr. Christian Andrew Ulrich|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=March 17, 2020}}</ref> and the former Gayette Doris Spence (1927-2018), who was born in Cook County, [[Illinois]], reared in Dubuque, [[Iowa]], and was a nurse at Mayo Clinic where she met her husband. Mark Ulrich was a "lifelong supporter of the arts [who] felt it important to provide children, adults, and families a supportive and creative environment where no matter the age, one could find exposure to the classics of literature, art, theatre and music for the purpose of building character and strengthening virtues."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=mark-burghardt-ulrich&pid=195710543&fhid=12536&f=portal|title=Mark Ulrich obituary|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=March 16, 2020|accessdate=March 17, 2020}}</ref>

https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Ulrich&GSfn=Christian&GSmn=Andrew&GSby=1924&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=40917236&df=all&|title=Dr. Christian Andrew Ulrich|publisher=Old.findagrave.com|accessdate=March 17, 2020}}</ref> and the former Gayette Doris Spence (1927-2018), who was born in Cook County, [[Illinois]], reared in Dubuque, [[Iowa]], and was a nurse at [[Mayo Clinic]], where she met her husband. Mark Ulrich was a "lifelong supporter of the arts [who] felt it important to provide children, adults, and families a supportive and creative environment where no matter the age, one could find exposure to the classics of literature, art, theatre and music for the purpose of building character and strengthening virtues."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=mark-burghardt-ulrich&pid=195710543&fhid=12536&f=portal|title=Mark Ulrich obituary|publisher=''The Monroe News-Star''|date=March 16, 2020|accessdate=April 25, 2020}}</ref>

Ruth Ulrich has two in-laws, Mark's siblings, Christine Bonds and husband Kenny of Moscow in Jefferson County, [[Arkansas]], and Thomas Andrew Ulrich and his wife, Catherine Jones Ulrich, both of whom are [[Presbyterian]] ministers in Akron, [[Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=gayette-doris-spence-ulrich&pid=187848460&fhid=25256|title=Gayette Ulrich obituary|publisher=''Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=January 15, 2018}}</ref>

Ruth Ulrich has two in-laws, Mark's siblings, Christine Bonds and husband Kenny of Moscow in Jefferson County, [[Arkansas]], and Thomas Andrew Ulrich and his wife, Catherine Jones Ulrich, both of whom are [[Presbyterian]] ministers in Akron, [[Ohio]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thenewsstar/obituary.aspx?n=gayette-doris-spence-ulrich&pid=187848460&fhid=25256|title=Gayette Ulrich obituary|publisher=''Monroe News-Star''|accessdate=January 15, 2018}}</ref>