1^st Assistant District Attorney
Telephone: (504) 297-5146 / Fax: (504) 297-5157
Email: robertwhite@25thda.org

Robert White was awarded a Juris Doctorate degree from Brooklyn Law School as well as a Master of Science in Financial Management from the Navy Postgraduate School in 1994. In 1998, he received an LL.M. in Admiralty from Tulane Law School. One year later, while assigned as the Executive Officer of Naval Air Station in Belle Chasse, he was admitted to the Louisiana bar. Since then, Mr. White has prosecuted in Orleans Parish where he was Deputy Chief of Trials, Chief of Administration, and Chief of Public Corruption, and in Brooklyn, NY, where he prosecuted major felonies. On January 12, 2009 he was sworn in as First Assistant District Attorney of Plaquemines Parish prosecuting felonies in Division B and handling drug asset forfeitures.