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, U.S. Senator [[David Vitter]] nominated her to represent Monroe at the Business and Professional Women’s Leadership Summit in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>Vitter for Senate.gov</ref> She resides in Monroe with her husband, Mark B. 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>
In 1986, Ruth Laird married Mark Burghardt Ulrich, who attended Mississippi State University at Starkville and is the son of the late 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=
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=January 15, 2018}}</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. Ruth Ulrich has two in-laws, 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=http://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>