Christine Dickason and Kaitlyn Barton wrote in an MFP Voices column that Auditor Shad White’s “Dads Matter” report “is not a well-researched policy memo with thought-out ideas for improving the state—it’s a poorly written piece of propaganda.” They say the former Rhodes scholar ignores the role of racist policy; he responds that they have “antiquated views of Black families.”
Shad White
Shad White was appointed the 42nd state auditor of Mississippi in July 2018 and then won election to the office. White’s team has stopped the largest public fraud in state history, made the largest civil recovery after an auditor’s investigation in the history of the office, and concluded cases that, collectively, led to hundreds of years of prison sentences for fraudsters. He holds a certificate in forensic accounting, is a Certified Fraud Examiner, and is an officer in the Mississippi National Guard assigned to the 186th Air Wing in Meridian. The son of an oilfield pumper and public-school teacher, White grew up in rural Jones County and went on to earn degrees from the University of Mississippi, the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and Harvard Law School. Today he, his wife Rina, and their daughters live in Rankin County and attend St. Richard Church.