Malcolm Ruthven, age 89, died on August 13, 2025 in Petaluma, California. An attorney, IT consultant, artist, pilot, and ski bum, Malcolm was born in Jefferson City, MO but spent his adult life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Malcolm received his JD from Hastings College of Law in 1969. After a year working for a law firm tasked with getting wealthy clients out of parking tickets, he gave up the law profession for 30 years, and worked in the IT field, for IBM and various other companies. He later founded an IT consultancy for a time, then switched back to bankruptcy law. He never married, and had no children. He spent his youth in San Francisco before spending the remainder of his life in Marin County.