Ronnie L. White Politician
Ronnie L. White (born May 31, 1953) is a United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a former Missouri Supreme Court judge.White graduated from St. Louis Community College in 1977 and St. Louis University in 1979. He earned a law degree from the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1983. He worked as a public defender in St. Louis and an attorney in various other government offices and was a Missouri Representative for six years. In 1993, he was appointed as a City Counselor for St. Louis City. In May 1994, Governor Mel Carnahan appointed him a judge for the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals.Carnahan appointed White to the Supreme Court of Missouri in October 1995. He was the court's first African-American Chief Justice, from 2003 to 2005. White retired from the court on July 6, 2007 and was succeeded by Judge Patricia Breckenridge.
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| office | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri |
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