George White was the first African-American appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. A graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College, he worked his way through law school on the G.I. Bill. Following graduation, he went into practice with Charles W. Fleming (1955). In the 1960s, he served as a referee and investigator in Domestic Relations Court and for five years on one of Cleveland’s most contentious City Councils. He was elected to the Court of Common Pleas in 1968 and in 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the District Court. In 1995, he was named the District Court’s Chief Judge, making him the district’s first African-American Chief Judge. Among many acclaimed judgments, he is credited with ending Cleveland’s 25-year desegregation case. After his 1999 retirement, he headed the Cleveland Browns Foundation and helped create the United Black Fund of Cleveland.