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Jill White

Jill White
White in 2018
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Manawatu
In office 6 November 1993 – 12 October 1996
Preceded by	Hamish MacIntyre
Succeeded by	constituency abolished
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Labour party list
In office 12 October 1996 – 19 November 1998
Succeeded by	Helen Duncan[n 1]
25th Mayor of Palmerston North
In office 10 October 1998 – 13 October 2001
Preceded by	Paul Rieger
Succeeded by	Mark Bell-Booth
Personal details
Born	(1941-02-22) 22 February 1941 (age 83) Feilding, New Zealand
Political party	Labour Party (1990–present)
Profession	Teacher, Nurse

Jacqueline Jill White (born 22 February 1941) is a former New Zealand Labour Party politician, and a registered nurse.^[1]

White was born in Feilding in 1941. She attended Manchester Street Primary School and Feilding Agricultural High School before attending Victoria University of Wellington where she gained a Bachelor of Science and then Canterbury Teachers' College.^[2] She later completed a Master of ArtsatMassey University.^[3]

She first worked as a secondary school teacher in New Zealand from 1965, and later Samoa via Volunteer Service Abroad, before becoming a nurse in 1972. White also worked in the United Kingdom as a nurse before returning to New Zealand in 1979 where she became a community and public nurse before retiring in 1988.^[2]

White was a councillor on Palmerston North City Council from 1983 to 1992. This was followed by some years in Parliament, a role from which she resigned in 1998 to become Mayor of Palmerston North. She held that post until 2001.^[4][5][6] She was the first woman to hold the position. In 1989, she was elected a member of the Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council, remaining a member until 1994 when she resigned.^[2] She was later a Horizons Regional Councillor from 2007 until 2013.

White's community involvement was with the Girl Guides, District Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse and the National Council of Women.^[2]

From 1993 to 1998, she was a member of Parliament for the Labour Party, first as MP for Manawatu and then as a list MP.^[7] In 1996, she had stood in Rangitīkei unsuccessfully.^[8]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jill White.

• Who's Who in the New Zealand Parliament 1993. Wellington: Parliamentary Service. 1993.
• Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament by G.A. Wood (University of Otago Press, 2nd edition 1996) ISBN 1-877133-00-0
• "Women in parliament 1933 – 2005". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2011.