Ms. White, born in Oklahoma, attended Vassar College and graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1973, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1976.

Ms. White’s practice focuses on bankruptcy and insolvency law and creditors’ rights, as well as general commercial litigation.

Ms. White has served as President and Chair, and is currently a Director of the Southeastern Bankruptcy Law Institute. She is a Trustee of the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) - Georgia Network. She has served as Chair of the Bankruptcy Court Subcommittee of the Atlanta Bar Association's Courts Committee, the Standing Committee on Local Rules of the Bankruptcy Section, State Bar of Georgia, and the Standing Committee on Local Rules of the Atlanta Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section.

Ms. White lectures regularly on bankruptcy issues, and has been a guest speaker for the Practising Law Institute, the Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section of the Alabama Bar, the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Georgia State University College of Law, and Mercer Law School. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Dartmouth Club of Georgia. Ms. White has been included in the Best Lawyers in America 2008 and 2009 editions, and has been named one of Georgia's Legal Elite 2008 - The Best Lawyers in Georgia, by Georgia Trend Magazine and was named a 2009, 2010 and 2011 Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine and the publishers of Atlanta Magazine.