K. Ellis Ritchie

K. Ellis Ritchie is the founding and managing partner of the Ritchie, Rock & McBride Law Firm. Mr. Ritchie has served as lead attorney on 15 published appellate decisions to date along with numerous unpublished appellate decisions. He has served as lead attorney on over 75 jury trials to date all across the state of Oklahoma. He also serves as an instructor for other attorneys in continuing legal education seminars. K. Ellis Ritchie earned his Juris Doctorate Degree from the University Of Tulsa College Of Law in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1992. In 1993 he founded his own law firm which has grown into the present firm of “Ritchie, Rock & McBride”. Mr. Ritchie's work experience includes serving as a municipal court prosecutor, municipal court judge, city attorney and private attorney. He has served as President of the local Bar Association and is admitted to the United States Supreme Court Bar, all Oklahoma state courts and federal courts located in the state, Oklahoma Bar Association and the Mayes County Bar Association. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees K. Ellis Ritchie included in a Super Lawyers® list Other Sources of Feedback About K. Ellis Ritchie Included on the 2025Oklahoma Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 Oklahoma Super Lawyers list 2023 Oklahoma Super Lawyers list 2022 Oklahoma Super Lawyers list

• Senior Partner

• City of Pryor, Prosecutor, 1992
• City of Pryor, Municipal Judge, 1993 - 1996
• References
• Mike McGehee - Williams Construction Company, Pryor, Oklahoma
• Kolker & Kolker, CPA, Pryor, Oklahoma
• Ron Reiser - RCB Bank, Pryor, Oklahoma
• Century Bank, Pryor, Oklahoma
• Matthew N Davis - Groendyke Transport Inc.
• Bill McAnally - A & M Concrete
• Languages
• English (Primary)

• Eminent Domain in Oklahoma, Lorman Education Services, July 28, 2006
• Legal Issues for Oklahoma Civil Engineers, Half Moon Seminars, October 14, 2005
• Plat and Subdivision Law, Lorman Education Services, October 30, 2013
• Legal and Practical Issues of Easements in Oklahoma, Lorman Education Services, April 9, 2014
• Advanced Eminent Domain & Valuation, NBI Seminars, November 12, 2013
• Representative Clients
• RCB Bank
• Century Bank
• Williams Construction Co.
• Pryor Stone
• El Chico Restaurants
• Trade Winds Hotels
• City of Pryor Creek, OK
• Groendyke Transport, Inc.

• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Perdue
• Citation: 204 P.3rd 1279
• Court: Supreme Court of OK
• Year: 1999
• Serial Number: 105297
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Post
• Citation: 125 P.3d 1183
• Year: 2005
• Serial Number: 102,101
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Kelly
• Citation: 156 P.3d 734
• Court: OK CIV APP
• Year: 2006
• Serial Number: 102,566
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Minor
• Citation: 221 P.3d 141
• Year: 2009
• Serial Number: 106003
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. United Commercial Properties. Inc.
• Citation: 214 P.3d 810
• Court: Oklahoma
• Year: 2008
• Serial Number: 104720
• Petty v. Petty
• Citation: 890 P.2d 1364
• Court: Okla. Civ. App. Div.I
• Year: 1995
• Serial Number: 82,801
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Watkins
• Citation: 993 P.2d 144
• Court: Okla. Civ. App. Div. 2
• Serial Number: 91,443
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Chelsea Butane
• Citation: 91 P.3d 656
• Year: 2004
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Moore
• Citation: 217 P.3d 165
• Serial Number: 105787
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Evans
• Citation: 241 P.3d 273
• Court: Okla. Civ. App. Div. I
• Year: 2010
• Serial Number: 106733
• Goss v. Mitchell
• Citation: 2011 OK CIV APP 74
• Court: OK Civ APP
• Year: 2011
• Serial Number: 106928
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. Teal
• Citation: 2010 OK CIV APP 64
• Serial Number: 106244
• McGlothlin v. Livingston
• Citation: 2012 OK CIV APP 48
• Year: 2012
• Serial Number: 107144
• Bates v. Copeland
• Citation: 2015 OK CIV APP 30
• Year: 2015
• Serial Number: 112506
• State ex rel Department of Transportation v. K & L Leasing, Inc.
• Citation: 2012 OK CIV APP 71
• Serial Number: 108,784

• Oklahoma, 1992
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Oklahoma
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Oklahoma
• U.S. District Court Western District of Oklahoma
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2009

• American Bar Association, 1992 - Present (Member)
• Oklahoma Bar Association, 1992 - Present (Member)
• Lions Club, 1986 - Present (Member)
• Cherokee Nation Bar Association, 2011 - Present (Member)
• Mayes County Bar Association, 1992 - Present (Member)
• Fraternities and Sororities
• Phi Delta Phi