Jerome Leonard Boger ( ; born 1955) is an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) since the 2004 NFL season.
 He wears uniform number 23 since 2006; before that, he wore uniform number 109.
 He started in the league as a line judge and was promoted to referee in 2006 after two seasons.
 Along with Gene Steratore, he was one of two new referees for 2006, replacing retired officials Bernie Kukar and Tom White.
 Boger became the third African-American referee in the NFL after Johnny Grier (1988), who previously wore uniform number 23, and Mike Carey (1995).
Edwin William Hickox (born July 31, 1962) is an umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1990 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues beginning in 2005.
 He wears uniform number 15 (he wore uniform number 39 during his American League tenure).
 Hickox has officiated in the 2007, 2010, and 2012 National League Division Series, as well as the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Jerry T. Seeman (March 11, 1936 − November 24, 2013) was an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) from 1975 to 1990 and was the NFL's Senior Director of Officiating from 1991 to 2001, succeeding Art McNally.
 In his 16 seasons in the NFL, Seeman was selected to officiate in 15 playoff games including two Pro Bowls, and two Super Bowls: XXIII in 1989 and XXV in 1991, and was an alternate referee for Super Bowl XIV in 1980.
 He wore uniform number 70 for the majority of his career (wearing number 17 during the 1979−81 seasons when officials were numbered by position), which was retired eight months after his death.
 It was the first time ever the NFL had retired an official's uniform number.
Sarah Thomas (born Sarah Bailey) is an American football official, and is currently an official for the National Football League (NFL).
 Thomas was the first woman to officiate a major college football game, the first to officiate a bowl game, and the first to officiate in a Big Ten stadium.
 On April 8, 2015, Thomas was hired as the first full-time female official in NFL history, and for the 2017 season, she is on the officiating crew headed by referee Ronald Torbert.
 Thomas's NFL officiating uniform number is 53, worn in past seasons by umpire Garth DeFelice, line judge Bill Reynolds, and field judge Frank Kirkland.
Carl Paganelli is an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) since the 1999 NFL season, who wears uniform number 124.
 As an umpire, Paganelli is notable for working two Super Bowls, Super Bowl XXXIX and Super Bowl XLI, in a span of three years.
 He officiated his third Super Bowl game, Super Bowl XLVI, in Indianapolis, and was chosen to officiate Super Bowl XLVIII in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
 He has two brothers who officiate in the NFL, Dino Paganelli and Perry Paganelli; they are both back judges.
 Carl Paganelli and Perry Paganelli became the first set of brothers to be part of the same officiating crew when they officiated Super Bowl XLI together.
 Carl Paganelli is a member of the Arena Football Hall of Fame.
Kelly Sutherland (born April 18, 1971 in Richmond, British Columbia) is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 11.
 He was one of the referees for the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals along Bill McCreary, Dan O'Halloran and Stephen Walkom.
 He was selected again to officiate the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, and the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals.
 Sutherland officiated the gold medal game men's ice hockey tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Violet Renice Palmer (born July 20, 1964) is an American basketball referee in the NBA and WNBA and the first female official to reach the highest competitive tier in a major U.S. professional sport.
 She also earned recognition as a member of two NCAA Division II women's championship basketball teams.
 Palmer was the first woman to officiate an NBA playoff game when she did so in the April 25, 2006 match between the Indiana Pacers and New Jersey Nets.
 In the NBA, Palmer wears uniform number 12.
Marc Joannette (born November 3, 1968) is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 25.
 As of the end of the 2007–08 NHL season, he has officiated 470 regular season and 28 playoff games.
 His first game was on October 1, 1999.
 He officiated on April 6, 2007 when Martin Brodeur broke Bernie Parent's single season wins record with his 48th win of the season.
 He was selected to officiate the 2008 and 2009 Stanley Cup Finals.
 He was selected to officiate the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games in Canada.
Dennis LaRue (born July 14, 1959 in Savannah, Georgia) has been a National Hockey League referee since the 1990–91 NHL season, and has worn the uniform number 14 since the 1994–95 NHL season.
 He was selected to officiate the 1991 Canada Cup and the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals.
 In December 2009, he was selected as one of 13 referees to officiate at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
 Dennis spent time in Spokane, Washington as a youth.
Garth DeFelice is a former National Football League (NFL) umpire who served from the 1998 NFL season until 2013.
 His uniform number was 53 (now worn by Sarah Thomas, the league's first-ever female official, and previously worn by Bill Reynolds and Frank Kirkland), and served in crews headed by Clete Blakeman from 2010–2013.
 He has also worked under Mike Carey and Bill Leavy, under whom he officiated Super Bowl XL.
 On May 4, 2014, it was announced that DeFelice would not return to the field for the 2014 season as he will become one of the regional supervisors for the officiating office.

Question:  Who is the firs woman to officiate a major college footbal game and wears the uniform number 53 of Garth Defelice?
Answer: Sarah Thomas