Oklahoma commissioner Terri White to become new CEO of MH association

In a move she said “feels like coming home,” Terri White will be Mental Health Association Oklahoma's new CEO come August, the Tulsa World reported July 3. The former commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, who served for 13 years and was then the longest‐serving commissioner of mental health in the United States, will replace Mike Brose. Brose announced his departure as CEO earlier this year, after serving in the role for 27 years, spokesman Matt Gleason said. White resigned from the state department in January and was plucked amid pandemic chaos by a national search firm MHAOK hired to find Brose's successor. “I would argue that the brain is the most important organ in the body,” White said. “Brain health is the key to having healthy individuals, a healthy family, a healthy community and a healthy state.”