Son of Frederic Lyman & Frances (Stoughton) Ballard. He attended Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia and St. George's School in Newport, RI (graduated 1935). He then attended the University of Pennsylvania (graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1939). He studied law at the University of Oxford's New College for two years then attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School (graduated magna cum laude in 1942). He entered the law firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews, & Ingersoll, which was founded by his grandfather, Ellis Ames Ballard, in the nineteenth century. He took three years off from the firm to serve as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II, but otherwise spent his entire legal career there, retiring in 1987. He married feminist and civic leader Ernesta Drinker Ballard in 1939, with whom he had one son (Frederic Lyman) and three daughters (Alice Walker, Ernesta, and Sophie). He died on March 13, 2001, in Philadelphia.
Son of Frederic Lyman & Frances (Stoughton) Ballard. He attended Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia and St. George's School in Newport, RI (graduated 1935). He then attended the University of Pennsylvania (graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1939). He studied law at the University of Oxford's New College for two years then attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School (graduated magna cum laude in 1942). He entered the law firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews, & Ingersoll, which was founded by his grandfather, Ellis Ames Ballard, in the nineteenth century. He took three years off from the firm to serve as a lieutenant in the Navy during World War II, but otherwise spent his entire legal career there, retiring in 1987. He married feminist and civic leader Ernesta Drinker Ballard in 1939, with whom he had one son (Frederic Lyman) and three daughters (Alice Walker, Ernesta, and Sophie). He died on March 13, 2001, in Philadelphia.
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