The Foreign Service Journal, September 2015

76 SEPTEMBER 2015 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS STEVE MORR I SON FCS VICE PRESIDENT Steve Morrison is an active-duty Foreign Commercial Service officer who has served abroad in Mexico, Spain, France and Senegal. Domestically, he ran the Commercial Service’s Southern California office and has worked on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon and in the Office of the Secretary of Commerce. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Kalamazoo College, a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and has completed Ph.D. coursework at the Institute for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies in Paris. He is married with one child. MARK PETRY FAS VICE PRESIDENT Mark Petry, a member of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service since 1998, is cur- rently deputy director of the New Technol- ogies and Production Methods Division. He has served as director of the USDA Intel- lectual Property Rights Office at Embassy Beijing and as an agricultural attaché in Moscow. He grew up in Fountain City, Indiana, and earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Purdue University and mas- ter’s degrees in agricultural economics and food safety from Purdue University and Michigan State University, respectively. Petry and his wife have two children. AMBASSADOR THOMAS BOYATT RETIREE VICE PRESIDENT Ambassador (ret.) Tom Boyatt entered the Foreign Service in 1959 and retired in 1984 as a career minister. During his career, he served in every cone and at posts in four of the five geographic bureaus. He earned the Department of State’s Heroism Award and AFSA’s Lifetime Contributions to American Diplomacy Award for his service. Within AFSA, Boyatt has served as president, vice president and treasurer. He was born in Wyoming, Ohio, and received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy. AMBASSADOR PATR I C I A BUTEN I S RETIREE REPRESENTATIVE Ambassador (ret.) Patricia Butenis most recently served as dean of the School of Professional and Area Studies in the Foreign Service Institute before retiring in 2014 with the rank of career minister. She has previously served as ambassador to Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bangladesh; deputy chief of mission in Baghdad and Islamabad; and consul general in Warsaw and Bogotá. Her service in Iraq earned her the Baker-Wilkins Award. Raised in New Jersey, Butenis received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and master’s degrees from Colum- bia University and the National War College. LAWRENCE CASSE L L E STATE REPRESENTATIVE Lawrence W. K. Casselle is a supervisory special agent with the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security and branch chief for Overseas Protective Operations, Western Hemisphere Affairs. He joined DS as a special agent in 2003 and served with the New York Field Office, the department’s Operations Center and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s protective detail. He has also served overseas as assistant regional security officer at Embassy Abu Dhabi and Embassy Kabul, and as regional security officer at Embassy Belmopan. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Hampton University. J E F FREY COCHRANE USAID REPRESENTATIVE Jeffrey Cochrane has been with USAID for more than 20 years. Currently a desk offi- cer for Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo, he has directed economic growth offices in West Africa and Iraq, and served as division chief for information and communications technology in the Office of Infrastructure. Cochrane earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He lives with his husband, Robert, in Washington, D.C.