Pamela White worked as an attorney in the legal department of Hallmark Cards from 1978-1981, and as an independent legal consultant to artists from 1981-1985. From 1989-1992 she was an Assistant Curator, then Curator of exhibitions and collections at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Since 1992 she has worked at the University of Iowa Museum of Art as Curator of painting and sculpture. She has been a Project Director for National Endowment for the Humanities grants and an Adjunct faculty member in the UI College of Liberal Arts.

BA, Graceland College, 1973

JD, University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1978

MA, University of Kansas, 1984

MPhil, University of Kansas, 1985

PhD, University of Kansas, 1991