Rising Damp his wife. Seedy and furtive, Rigsby has poor interpersonal skills. His professed love of Miss Jones is mostly sexual. She rejects him due to him being married, until his marriage ends and Miss Jones accepts his proposal. As he pries and spies upon his tenants, Rigsby often carries Vienna, his large, fluffy, black-and-white tomcat. Rigsby's amiable pet, and confidant, is so named because - as Rigsby tells it - when he goes to put him out on a cold dark night, if there is another set of eyes out there, then it's Good Night, Vienna. Ruth Jones (Frances de la
Anna Blackburne-Rigsby Blackburne, is a former chair of the New York City Housing Authority (1990-1992) and judge on the New York Supreme Court. She is a member of Shiloh Baptist Church and Alpha Kappa Alpha. Anna Blackburne-Rigsby Anna Elizabeth Blackburne-Rigsby (born May 6, 1961) is the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. Born in Washington, D.C., Blackburne-Rigsby graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens, New York, in 1979. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Duke University in 1983 and a law degree from the Howard University