Biography of Anne G. Ritchie

Anne G. Ritchie received Master of Arts degrees in History and Library & Information Science from the University of Kentucky. While working at the University of Kentucky Libraries from 1977 to 1988, she directed oral history projects on a variety of topics including the Frontier Nursing Service, John Jacob Niles, and the Christian Appalachian Project.

After moving to the Washington, D.C. area in 1988, she conducted interviews for a community oral history project in Maryland and for the Women in Journalism Oral History Project for the Washington Press Club Foundation. Since 1990, she has been the senior archivist and oral historian at the National Gallery of Art. She has also been active in regional, national and international oral history organizations, having served as president of OHMAR (Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region) and the Oral History Association and vice president of the International Oral History Association.