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Stephanie White

  • Founding Attorney, Florida Adoptions, Stephanie S. White, PLLC; UWF Trustee

Biography

Stephanie White is an attorney in Pensacola, Florida where she focuses on adoption and child-related issues. Previously she worked as the community affairs director for the Sandy Sansing Dealerships. Before moving to Pensacola and starting with Sansing, Stephanie was an attorney in Dallas, where she represented abused and neglected children as the courts decided adoption, placement, and parental rights matters. She also served as a supervising attorney for the Children’s Advocacy Legal Clinic at the SMU Dedman School of Law and as a contract research attorney for Texas Lawyers for Children. Before practicing child advocacy law, she was a commercial litigator with Winstead Sechrest & Minick. 

Stephanie and her husband Frank have three boys—twins, Henry and Clayton, and Wesley, and one girl, Kathryn. She is involved on several nonprofit boards, including World Help, Student Leadership University, the Secret Place, and Northwest Florida YMCA. In 2020, Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Stephanie to the board of the Escambia Children's Trust, where she serves as chair, and in 2019, to the Board of Trustees of the University of West Florida. She enjoys spending time with her family and attending their many sporting activities. She also enjoys spending time with her friends.