Jill White

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

Jill White
White in 2018
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Manawatu
In office
6 November 1993 – 12 October 1996
Preceded byHamish MacIntyre
Succeeded byconstituency abolished
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Labour party list
In office
12 October 1996 – 24 November 1998
Succeeded byHelen Duncan
25th Mayor of Palmerston North
In office
10 October 1998 – 13 October 2001
Preceded byPaul Rieger
Succeeded byMark Bell-Booth
Personal details
Born22 February 1941
Feilding, New Zealand
Political partyLabour Party (1990–present)
ProfessionTeacher, Nurse

Early life and career

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. She later completed a Bachelor of Arts at Massey University.[2]

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]

Local body politics

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.[3][4][5] 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]

Member of Parliament
New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
1993–1996 44th Manawatu Labour
1996–1998 45th List 9 Labour

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.[6] In 1996 she had stood in Rangitīkei unsuccessfully.[7]

Notes
  1. Temple, Philip (1994). Temple’s Guide to the 44th New Zealand Parliament. Dunedin: McIndoe Publishers. ISBN 0 86868 159 8.
  2. Who's Who 1993, p. 82.
  3. "Duncan says bye like she said hi – late". The New Zealand Herald. 4 August 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  4. "1990s". Palmerston North City Council. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  5. Matheson, Ian Roderick (2003). "Palmerston North Borough and City Councillors". Council and community: 125 years of local government in Palmerston North 1877–2002. pp. 91–100. ISBN 0-473-09340-5.
  6. "Women in parliament 1933–2005". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  7. "Electorate candidates for election". The Dominion. 19 September 1996. p. 17.

References
  • 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.
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Hamish MacIntyre		 Member of Parliament for Manawatu
1993–1996		 Constituency abolished
Political offices
Preceded by
Paul Rieger		 Mayor of Palmerston North
1998–2001		 Succeeded by
Mark Bell-Booth
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