Richard A.  White

Seventh Member

Safety Board Member

Elected by Safety Members

Term: 07/01/2006 - 06/30/2009

Richard is a career public safety officer having begun his law enforcement career in 1972 as a Deputy Sheriff in Upstate New York.  He joined the Orange County (CA) Sheriff-Coroner Department in 1980, and currently serves as a Sergeant in the Training Division.

In 2007, Richard was elected to the Board of Directors of the State Association of County Retirement Systems (SACRS), which is an association of 20 California county retirement systems enacted under the County Retirement Employment Law of 1937.

Richard holds a master's degree from the University of San Francisco and a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati.  He is a graduate of the Sherman Block Supervisory Leadership Institute and is a credentialed master instructor by California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.

Richard has completed a variety of courses important to his fiduciary role on the OCERS Board of Retirement including the SACRS Public Pension Training Program conducted by the faculty at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business; the Money Management Fundamentals Program at The Wharton School; The Fiduciary College at Stanford Law School and the Principles of Pension Management Course presented by the California Association of Public Retirement Systems.

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