Katherine E. White is professor of law at the Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich. She was a Fulbright senior scholar in Munich, Germany, at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition, and Tax Law in 1999 to-2000. She received her bachelor of science degree from Princeton University in 1988, a juris doctor (J.D) degree from the University of Washington in 1991, and a master of laws( LL.M.) degree from the George Washington University Law School in 1996. From 1995 to1996, she was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader, circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In 1998, she was elected to the University of Michigan Board of Regents and was re-elected in 2006. From 2000 to 2002, she was appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to serve on the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Public Advisory Committee. She also serves as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and is currently the reserve associate dean of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (JAG) at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. She served as a White House fellow from 2001 to 2002 and is a registered patent attorney. Ms. White has been a member of the Fulbright Association Board of Directors since 2005 and has served as vice president.