Lisa Holder White

About

Name: Lisa Holder White
Date of Birth: 1968
Occupation: Illinois Supreme Court justice
Political Experience: Justice Lisa Holder White graduated magna cum laude from Lewis University in 1990 and earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in Urbana-Champaign in 1993.

She served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for Macon County, and later, as an Assistant Public Defender. She went into private practice at Brinkoetter & White.

In 2001, she was chosen as an Associate Judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit. In 2008, the Illinois Supreme Court appointed her Circuit Judge to fill a retirement vacancy, and in 2010, she was elected to the position. In this role, she served as Supervising Judge of the Criminal Division.

Again selected to fill a vacancy, Justice White was sworn in as the first Black member of the Illinois Appellate Court, Fourth District in 2013. In 2014, she was elected to a full term on the appellate court. On July 7, 2022, Justice White was sworn in as a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, the first Black woman to hold this position.

She has chaired the Illinois Supreme Court Judicial Conference Committee on Education (now known as the Committee on Judicial Education). She chaired the New Judge Seminar Workgroup, responsible for planning the seminar held each year and attended by all new judges in the state. She has served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Judicial College and as a member of the Illinois Judicial Conference that developed the Illinois Judicial Branch Strategic Agenda unveiled in October 2019.
Political Party: Republican
Website: electjusticeholderwhite.com