UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW — Like many law students, Ruby Cherian, who will graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law this May, was a very serious child. Deeply concerned about the world around her, and rigorously disciplined about her responsibilities, she would go so far as to ground herself from going to a friend’s birthday party when her homework wasn’t complete. She was 8 at the time. That sense of commitment, particularly to justice and those in need, has carried her through college and law school and earned her a new two-year appointment as an Equal Justice America fellow at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond, where she will be joining the civil rights and racial justice unit.