Solange E. Ritchie is the immediate Past President of OCAABA and practices in Irvine in the areas of business, intellectual property, personal injury and general civil litigation with the Law Offices of Steven R. Young.  She presently serves as President of the Peter M. Elliott Inn of Court and is the immediate past President of Orange County Women Lawyers. She served on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Bar Assn. from 2005 to 2007 and now serves as the Secretary for the OCBA's Charitable Fund, as well as on a number of its committees.  She looks forward to co-chairing a spectacular OCBA Charitable Fund 20th Anniversary Gala in September of this year along with Wayne Gross.  She also continues to co-chair the OCBA's Diversity and Equal Justice Committee.  After completing a year of law school at DePaul School of Law in Chicago, she finished her legal studies at Western State University College of Law where she served as  Editor-In-Chief of Law Review in 1994.