Alice Saulnier Ritchie

Alice Saulnier Ritchie, aged 86, died of pancreatic cancer on August 21, 2024 in Chestertown, Maryland. Born on June 8, 1938 in New York City, NY, she grew up in the Morningside Heights neighborhood on the Upper West Side. Alice was the daughter of Raymond J. and Estelle Siegel Saulnier.

She is survived by her three children Sarah Clark Stuart, Warren Clark III (Johanna Phillips-Clark), and Hope Elizabeth Clark (Craig McSparran) and four grandchildren Marina Estelle Stuart, Emily Dillon Clark, Amelia Flora Stuart and John Christian Clark. She was married to Lyell H. Ritchie, who died in 2004, for 25 years. She was previously married to Warren Clark, Jr., who died in 2018.

Alice graduated from the Northfield School in 1956 and attended Vassar College from 1956-1958. She earned a BA from George Washington University in 1971, a MLS from Catholic University in 1973 and a JD from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1985.

She practiced as an Assistant Public Defender for Talbot County and a Deputy State's Attorney for Kent County. After 1996, she had a solo practice in family law and was a staff attorney for ten years with the Child Advo- cacy Project of the Eastern Shore (C.A.P.E.S.). She was also appointed as a Child's Attorney by the Circuit Courts of Kent and Wicomico County to represent children in domestic or adoption cases.

Service, September 21, 2024, 2 p.m. at St Paul's Church Chestertown, MD.