Wendy White
Chevy Chase, MD
Of Counsel and Chair of the DC Real Estate
Transactions Group
Goulston & Storrs
Wendy is Chair of the firm’s D.C. Real Estate
transactional group. She concentrates her practice
in development, joint ventures, acquisitions,
dispositions and financings of commercial
properties in the DC metropolitan region as well as
nationally. Her practice includes transactions
involving office, hotel, retail, multi-family and mixed
use properties. She has experience in all kinds of
financings, including construction, term, and
mezzanine loans, secured and unsecured lines of credit, and ground leases. Her clients include
listed real estate investment trusts, public and private local, national and international companies
with investments in the US, and nonprofits.᩿Prior to joining Goulston & Storrs, she practiced law at
Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge, later Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, where she sat on the
managing board of the firm.
Wendy sits on the Boards of Directors of Chevy Chase Trust Company (a private trust company
with over $30 billion of assets under management). She also sits on the DC Steering Committee of
2020 Women on Boards and the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) of ULI Washington. She
served as the General Counsel of The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., for 10 years, ending in
2018, and currently serves on its Board. She is a past President of Commercial Real Estate Women
(CREW) of Washington, D.C., and a past officer and board member of the International Women’s
Forum (Washington, D.C. chapter). Wendy also served on the Board of Directors of MedStar
Georgetown University Hospital for nine years, ending in 2019, and on the Board of Trustees of
Washington Real Estate Investment Trust, the oldest public REIT in the country, for eight years,
ending in 2016, and chaired the Corporate Governance/Nominating Committee for six years.
Wendy received her B.A. from Sweet Briar College, her M.F.A. from University of California at Irvine,
and her J.D. from University of Miami School of Law. Wendy is married to a retired NASA satellite
electronics engineer and freelance photojournalist and has adult twin daughters. She grew up as a
dedicated Girl Scout in Miami, FL, with five brothers.
Wendy is a Lifetime Girl Scout member, Secretary of Girl Scouts Nation’s Capital Board of
Directors, member of the Governance Advisory Committee, and member of the Major Gifts
Society. She served as a National Delegate for the 2020 National Council Session of GSUSA, former
co-chair of the Bylaws Revision Ad Hoc Committee, and former chair of the Property Advisory
Committee.
