Ralph Tunnicliff Catterall (14 March 1897 – 8 October 1978), judge of the Virginia State Corporation Commission.
[2] On 14 April 1949 the governor appointed Catterall to the State Corporation Commission to fill an unexpired term.
[3] Catterall served until 1973 (retiring at age 75) and had an enduring influence on the SCC, especially in regulating banks and public utilities.
[4] Although Massive Resistance did not directly affect the State Corporation Commission, Catterall was friendly to the Byrd Organization which advocated such opposition to the school desegregation rulings in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and 1955.
He published an article very critical of the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings to desegregate public schools.