Sharon Stanton White, a bond lawyer and one-time president of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, died April 26 in Washington, D.C., after a bout with cancer. She was 65.
Mrs. White, who worked with several law firms in her career, was a founding partner in 1978 of the law firm Jones, Hall, Hill & White in California. Before that, she worked at the San Mateo, Calif.-based firm of Wilson, Jones, Morton & Lynch. After leaving the firm, now known as Jones Hall, she was of counsel at Hunton & Williams in Washington until 2000, when she started her own practice.
Mrs. White received NABL’s Bernard P. Friel Medal in 1993 and the American Bar Association’s Jefferson B. Fordham Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002, recognizing outstanding contributions to the practice of state and local government law by an individual over an entire career.
In addition to her legal practice, Mrs. White was a tax columnist for NABL and wrote extensively on municipal bond tax law issues.
Andy Hall, who was Mrs. White’s law partner when Jones, Hall, Hill & White was founded, recalled her Friday as “a super lawyer.”
Mrs. White had both bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
She is survived by her husband, Bobby Lawrence White, brother Jeffrey Paulding Stanton, daughter Shannon Caroline White, son Jeffrey Thomas White, and grandson Patrick Stanton Lamp.
In accordance with her wishes, the ceremony will be private. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Law Library Fund at Bolt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, 2000 Center St., Suite 400, Berkeley, CA 94720. Attn: Leslie Banez.
