SAG Board Quietly Re-Upped Nat’l Executive Director David White

The board extended White’s contract last April but made no announcement

David White, the Screen Actors Guild's executive director since 2009, will stay on through 2014, TheWrap has confirmed.

The union's board of directors quietly extended White's contract this past April. The board issued no announcement at the time.

White's contract was set to expire this coming up February.

The board clearly wants White to stick around for the stake of stability: The union is talking about merging with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and members will be voting on the proposed merger around February.

White's history with the union goes back nearly 10 years.

He served as general counsel from 2002 until 2006, when he left to become managing principal of the consulting firm Entertainment Strategies Group. He returned to the union as interim executive director on Jan. 26, 2009 and was appointed national executive director Oct. 18 of that year.

He is a Stanford Law graduate and Rhodes Scholar.

Variety first reported the news.

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