Jimmy White is a Gaelic football referee, administrator, coach, manager, player-manager and former player.
[1] He served as part of P. J. McGowan's backroom team when Donegal won the 1987 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship.
[1] White was a wing-back and was part of the CLG Na Cealla Beaga team that won five Donegal Senior Football Championship titles, in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995 and 1996, and he played in two other finals without winning, in 1990 and 1993.
[1] He refereed his sixth Donegal Senior Final twenty years later, in 2019 (first replay), tying the all-time record, having earlier been a linesman in the drawn match.
[5] His last game as an inter-county referee was the 2011 Dr McKenna Cup final between Derry and Tyrone.