Helene White
| Helene N. White | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit | |
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Assumed office August 8, 2008 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Susan Bieke Neilson |
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| Born |
December 2, 1954 New York City, New York |
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Columbia University (Barnard College) A.B. University of Pennsylvania Law School J.D. |
Helene N. White (born December 2, 1954) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Previously, she was a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Born in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, White graduated with an Artium Baccalaureus degree in economics from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1975 and the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1978. She then clerked for two years for Michigan Supreme Court Justice Charles Levin, whom she would later marry and, in November 2006, divorce. White then won an elected position on the Common Pleas Court for the City of Detroit, and in 1982 was elected to the Wayne County Circuit Court. White was elected to her position on the Michigan Court of Appeals in November 1992, and began serving in January 1993.
On January 7, 1997, President Bill Clinton nominated White to a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that was created by the decision by Sixth Circuit Judge Damon Keith to shift to senior status. With the United States Senate controlled by Republicans during Clinton's entire second term, White's nomination languished for more than four years, chiefly because of objections from Michigan's Republican senator at the time, Spencer Abraham.
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