Richard Ritter (born 1940) is an American studio glass artist who lives in North Carolina.

Ritter was born in Detroit, but grew up in the then rural Michigan town of Novi. He was inspired to pursue a career in art by his high school art teacher and in 1959 on to study at the Society of Arts and Crafts (later renamed the Center for Creative Studies) in Detroit, Michigan. In 1962, Ritter left school to take a job with an advertising firm, returning in 1968 to the Society of Arts and Crafts to continue his studies and teach advertising there.

His first experience with hot glass came in that year, when another instructor, Gilbert Johnson (b. 1930)[1] built a glass workshop at the school. Ritter graduated from the Society of Arts...