Ms. Anece Baxter White

Defense Forensic Science Center and USACIL

Attorney Anece Baxter White currently serves as the principal legal advisor for the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division – Gillem Enclave (DACID) and U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL). There she provides legal advice and support to criminal investigation organizations and legal agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense.  Prior to working at USACIL, Ms. Baxter White served as a Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney in Clayton County, Georgia where she handled felony criminal cases ranging from forgeries to murders. She is admitted to the State Bars of Georgia and Florida, the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Georgia, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia. Her prior and current memberships include the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, the Atlanta Bar Association, the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, American Business Women’s Association, and the American Academy of Forensic Scientists (2016-2019).

Anece Baxter White attended Florida A&M University where she earned a B.S. in Business Administration. Following graduation she attended Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis where she obtained a Juris Doctorate.  After law school Ms. Baxter White entered the United States Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps attending the Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, VA. As an Army lawyer she handled civil, administrative and criminal cases. Her assignments included legal assistance attorney, trial defense attorney, administrative law attorney, and being the advisor to the 3^rd Military Police Group, U. S. Army Criminal Investigations Division where she advised on criminal investigations throughout the eastern United States, South America and the Middle East. Ms. Baxter White completed eight years of active service. She currently also serves in the U.S. Army Reserves.  

Ms. Baxter White has presented numerous cases and argued before the Appellate Courts of the State of Georgia. With the assistance of the Georgia Attorney General’s office, she successfully presented the case of State v. Mayze, to the Georgia Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of Georgia’s Identity Theft law. Her amicus brief in U.S. v. Katso, filed in the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces was instrumental in re-establishing the requirements for the admission of substitute expert witness testimony at trial.

Anece is happily married and is the mother of two wonderful children.