Councilmember Max White

Email: mewhite@avondaleaz.gov
Office: 623-333-1913
Staff: 623-333-1013

Max White was elected in 2022 to serve on the Avondale City Council. Her 4-year term began January 2023.

Maxine E P White MBA, SHRM-SCP, RYS 200 grew up and attended public school in Cleveland Heights, Ohio; this is where her career began in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library system as a Page. She later joined Inroads as an HR Intern at a diagnostic imaging company. She made a lifetime commitment to public service in 1996 when she became a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. After graduating from Ohio University with her bachelor’s degree in Business and Public Policy, she joined MBNA Midwest and served in many roles. She was a member of the first graduating class from the MBA program at MBNA from John Carroll University, with a focus on International Business. She is a Society for Human Resource Management - Senior Certified Professional. She is passionate about teaching others about personal financial management and wellness to ensure individuals can have healthy spending habits and practices for a lifetime. During 2020, she retired from her role as an Employee Relations Consultant with Bank of America after 20+ years of service in the banking industry. She became a Yoga Teacher in May 2021 and has worked at Life Time Fitness in Goodyear since August 2021.

Councilmember White is a charter member and the inaugural Second Vice President of the Arizona West Valley Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She was appointed by the last two Farwest Regional Directors to serves as Delta’s Arizona State Social Action Coordinator to support all of the sorority’s chapters in this state to provide targeted Political Awareness and Involvement. She is an active member of her community. Prior to joining City Council, she was appointed to serve as an alternate on the Neighborhood and Family Services Commission and is a member of the Board of Adjustments for the City of Avondale, Arizona. She is a proud graduate of the Avondale Citizens Leadership Academy.

Currently, Councilmember White is Chair of the City of Avondale Audit Committee and a member of the City Council Subcommittee for Boards and Commissions. She also represents Avondale’s interests on a variety of transportation-related boards and committees, including: member of the Maricopa Association of Government’s Transportation Policy Committee; Vice Chair of the Regional Public Transportation Authority (Valley Metro) Board of Directors; Chair of the Valley Metro Board’s Audit & Finance Subcommittee; member of the Valley Metro Board’s Joint Subcommittee; and, member of the National League of Cities (NLC) Transportation & Infrastructure Services Federal Advocacy Committee. Councilmember White is also active on NLC constituency groups, including serving as Parliamentarian of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Official and as a member of NLC’s Race, Equity, and Leadership Council.

Councilmember White has called Avondale home since 2008. She and her husband, Colin, are the proud parents of three children. Affectionately called “Max” by friends and colleagues she has dedicated her life helping others in corporate workplaces and spaces find their edge and push beyond it to be successful and to realize self-actualization. She is a dedicated daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend, and community leader. Max has a passion for children’s development and sees the world as a place where we must make space for our kids to thrive. Max loves mediation, music, money and making movement apart of each moment. Max has the spirit of her ancestry in mind, she lives life to the fullest as a Christian Black Woman who loves to love and to be loved. Inspired by words from Shirley Chisholm and Muhammad Ali, Max believes “the service we give is the price we pay to live.”