Penny J. White
Penny J. White | |
|---|---|
| Associate Justice Tennessee Supreme Court | |
| In office 1994–1996 | |
| Appointed by | Ned McWherter |
| Preceded by | Justice Charles O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Justice Janice M. Holder |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Penny Jo White May 3, 1956 Kingsport, TN |
| Party | Democrat |
| Spouse | Mike Okun |
| Alma mater | East Tennessee State University, University of Tennessee College of Law, Georgetown University Law Center |
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Penny J. White (born May 3, 1956) is an American attorney and former judge who served as a judge on Tennessee's First Judicial Circuit, a judge for the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court. she was the second woman to serve on the Tennessee Supreme Court. White was removed from office in a judicial retention election in 1996 as the only justice to lose a retention election in Tennessee under the Tennessee Plan. After her time in the judiciary, White served as a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law until retiring in 2022.