Richard William Ervin Jr. (born Richard Reehorse Ervin, January 26, 1905 – August 24, 2004) was the Florida attorney general from 1949 to 1964 and served as chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1969 to 1971. He is credited with guiding the state from segregation (based on the brief he wrote to the United States Supreme Court's request from each state's attorney general on how to rule regarding Brown v. Board of Education), and desegregating its schools.
His son, Richard W. Ervin III, was a judge of the First District Court of Appeal for 30 years and retired at the end of 2006.
Ervin was a graduate of the University of Florida, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He earned his law degree at the University of Florida College of Law in 1928.