Richard A.  White
Seventh Member

Safety Board Member, Investment Committee Vice-Chair, Governance Committee Vice-Chair

Elected by Safety Members
Term: 07/01/2009 - 06/30/2012

Richard A. White, Jr. is serving his ninth year as the Safety Member representative on the Orange County Employees Retirement System’s (OCERS) Board of Retirement, having been elected to the Board position by the approximately 3,600 active safety members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, Probation Department and Fire Authority.

 As a fiduciary on the Board of Retirement, his responsibilities include establishing policies, governing practices, and oversight of the administration of the retirement plan that includes ensuring the payment of the $480 Million annual benefit payroll, approval and oversight of an $8 Million annual operating budget, decision-making on benefit and disability retirement determinations and policy setting and oversight of the $9 Billion investment trust fund.   Richard has served the OCERS Board of Retirement as Chair, Vice-Chair and Chair of the Investment Committee.

Richard was recently elected to a fourth term as the President of the State Association of County Retirement Systems (SACRS), an association of the 20 California county retirement systems enacted under the County Retirement Employment Law of 1937.  Collectively, the SACRS systems have trust fund assets of more than $80 Billion and provide benefits for about 250,000 active public servants throughout California and 150,000 retirees and beneficiaries.  As President, Richard leads the Board of Directors as they establish policy, legislative direction and fulfill the mission of the organization to provide education and training for the trustees and staffs of the SACRS member systems.  Richard is a frequent speaker to conferences and educational sessions on public pension matters.

Richard began his law enforcement career in 1972 as a Deputy Sheriff in upstate New York and is in his thirty-first year as a member of the Orange County (CA) Sheriff-Coroner Department where he serves as a Sergeant in the Training Division.  He is assigned to the Regional Training Academy in Tustin where his duties include the development of training courses for the department and the monitoring and training of the instructors in the basic law enforcement academy.

He is a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute, holds a POST Supervisor Certificate and earned the designation of Master Instructor from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST).  He has been instructing law enforcement courses in supervision, leadership, mentoring and coaching and other topics for 20 years and has also taught law enforcement courses for an Orange County community college.

Richard holds a Master of Science degree from the University of San Francisco, a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cincinnati and an Associate of Arts Degree from the State University of New York at Farmingdale.

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