Juanita Greer White Photographs (PH-00249)

Educator and legislator Juanita Greer White was born in Atlanta, Georgia on November 19, 1905. She received her A.B. in General Chemistry from Agnes Scott College in 1926 and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1929. Between 1924 and 1952 Dr. Greer White taught in Agnes Scott College, Mary Baldwin College, Bennett College, Hunter College, and Williamantic State Teachers' College in Connecticut. Also during these years, she worked on a special project on adsorption at John Hopkins, was a research chemist for Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Deluxe Laboratories of 20th Century Fox.

Following a residence in Millbrook, New York from 1935 to 1955, she and her husband, Dr. Thomas Sherman White, moved to Boulder City, Nevada. They both brought a wealth of experience and leadership to Clark County.

Dr. Juanita White was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, received the Collegiate Scholarship Award from Agnes Scott College, 1925-1926, was a Boston Alumnae Fellow, American Association of University Women (1929-1930), was a University Fellow, Johns Hopkins (1929-1930), named to American Men of Science, 1934-1955. She was also named to Women of America, Who's Who in New England in the 1930s and Who's Who of American Women (4th Edition), Who's Who in the West and International Dictionary of Biography. She was elected Regent of the University of Nevada, serving from 1963 to 1967 and served in the Nevada legislature as an Assemblywoman from 1971 to 1973.

She was associated with the American Association of University Women from 1928 and became very active in the Boulder City branch. After being elected to the Board of Regents, she was appointed the Nevada Commissioner for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Co-chair for the Committee on Educational Compact and a member of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women. Within Clark County she served on the Advisory Board for Youth Centers, the Clark County Mental Health Board, the Committee on Aging, and the "Operation Independence" Advisory Board.

Her constant involvement and dedication to higher education led to the honor of having a building named after her on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1976, the Juanita Greer White Life Sciences Building. Juanita Greer White died on September 18, 1997 and was memorialized in the Nevada State Legislature for leaving an indelible mark on public education in the State of Nevada.