Barbara McClure White (July 23, 1920 – December 30, 1984) was an ambassador and president of Mills College.

She received her bachelor's degree in history from Mount Holyoke College in 1941.

[2] White worked for Encyclopedia Britannica, the Office of War Information, and on the national staff of the League of Women Voters from 1947 to 1951.

[1][3] She worked as a Foreign Service Officer, serving in Chile, Portugal, Spain, and Italy before becoming the deputy director of the United States Information Agency, the first woman to serve in such a senior role in the Agency.

[1] Barbara McClure White died from cancer in 1984, aged 64 years, at a nursing home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.