Maxine Aldridge White

Biography

Maxine Aldridge White (born 1951) is an American attorney and retired judge from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was the chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals from 2023 to 2026, and served on the Court of Appeals in the Milwaukee-based District I court from 2020 to 2026. She was the first African-American woman to serve on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. White previously served 18 years as a Wisconsin circuit court judge in Milwaukee County, and was chief judge for the 1st Judicial Administrative District from 2015 until her appointment to the Court of Appeals in 2020. Earlier in her career, she was a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

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