A native Arkansan, John White is an industrial engineering graduate of the University of Arkansas (BSIE), Virginia Tech (MSIE), and The Ohio State University (PhD). He was awarded honorary doctorates from the Katholieke Universitiet of Leuven in Belgium and George Washington University. His career includes 56 years as an engineering educator at Arkansas, Georgia Tech, Ohio State and Virginia Tech, as well as service on five boards of directors for publicly traded corporations: Eastman Chemical Company (10 years), J. B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (18 years), Logility (12 years) Motorola (20 years), and Russell Corporation (14 years). His employment included the following leadership positions: Assistant Director for engineering at the National Science Foundation (3 years); Dean of Engineering at Georgia Tech (6 years), and Chancellor of the University of Arkansas (11 years).
