Elizabeth White

Elizabeth White

Website https://www.jamsadr.com/white/

Biography

Hon. Elizabeth Allen White (Ret.) retired as a judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court in July 2020 after serving 23 years on the court. Judge White was assigned to serve as a justice pro tem of the California Court of Appeal, 2nd District in 2004 and again in 2020. Her judicial career started in the then Los Angeles Municipal Court in 1997, and she was elevated in 2000 upon unification. Previously, she was a trial attorney representing both plaintiffs and defendants in employment and general business litigation.
Judge White presided in Department 48, an independent civil calendar court at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. She served as chair of the Judicial Education Seminars Civil Law Subcommittee from 2016 through her retirement in 2020. As such, she chaired a committee that developed judicial education for all civil judges in the County of Los Angeles. Prior to that, she chaired the Civil Law Education Committee for the Judicial Council’s Judicial Education and Research Department. She has been a frequent lecturer for judicial education throughout California and served as adjunct faculty at USC’s Gould School of Law’s LL.M. program, where she taught Constitutional Law and Professional Responsibility. She also served as adjunct faculty at Loyola Law School, where she taught Civil Discovery, and she was an instructor for UCLA Extension’s Paralegal Training Program. Judge White received her undergraduate degree from UCLA and obtained her J.D. from Loyola Law School in 1981.
Judge White is the author of The Rutter Group’s California Paralegal Manual: Civil Procedure Before Trial and co-author of the California Paralegal Manual: Civil Trials and Evidence and the California Paralegal Manual: Personal Injury.

Judge White is a past President of the National Association of Women Judges (NAWJ), an organization dedicated to promoting diversity on the bench, fostering collegiality and providing quality education for judges. Her leadership roles within this impactful organization have also included serving as president elect, vice president of districts, chair of NAWJ’s 2019 Conference in Los Angeles, and chair of District 14 encompassing both California and Nevada.