Career
He was an assistant county attorney for Smith County, Texas, from 1927 to 1930. He entered academia as an associate professor at the University of Texas School of Law, from 1930 to 1932, and then as a Brandeis research fellow at Harvard Law School from 1932 to 1933. White then went into government service, first as a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in the United States. Department of Justice, from 1933 to 1935, and then as a Solicitor in the United States. Department of Agriculture, from 1935 to 1942.
During World World War II, he served as a colonel in the United States Army, from 1942 to 1946.
After the war, he was a Solicitor for the United States. Department of the Interior from 1946 to 1953, and was briefly in private practice in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1953 to 1955. In 1955, White became a trial judge of the United States Court of Claims.
He was in active service as a judge of that court until 1971, when he became a senior trial judge. On October 1, 1982, White was appointed by operation of law as senior judge holding a new seat on the United States Court of Federal Claims, authorized by 96 Statistics
27. However, because the statute made no specific provision for such an appointment, on November 10, 1982, he received a recess appointment from President Ronald Reagan as a judge in regular active service in the same seat.
He served in this capacity for nine days before once again assuming senior status on November 19, 1982, serving in this capacity until his death, in Washington, District of Columbia White was one of several judges originally assigned to the United States. Court of Federal Claims for whom no successor was appointed.
