The Foreign Service Journal, October 2005

O C T O B E R 2 0 0 5 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 57 1965 Patricia Roberts Harris Ambassador to Luxembourg 1968 Barbara Mae Watson Administrator for the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs 1977 Mabel M. Smythe Ambassador to Cameroon Barbara Mae Watson Administrator for the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs Barbara Mae Watson Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs 1979 Anne F. Holloway Ambassador to Mali Mabel M. Smythe Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea 1980 Barbara Mae Watson Ambassador to Malaysia 1986 Cynthia S. Perry Ambassador to Sierra Leone 1989 Cynthia S. Perry Ambassador to Burundi Ruth V. Washington* Ambassador to The Gambia Jewel S. Lafontant-Mankarious Ambassador-at-Large as Coordinator for Refugee Affairs 1990 Aurelia Erskine Brazeal (FSO) Ambassador to Micronesia Arlene Render (FSO) Ambassador to The Gambia 1992 Ruth A. Davis (FSO) Ambassador to Benin 1993 Aurelia Erskine Brazeal (FSO) Ambassador to Kenya 1995 Mosina H. Jordan** (FSO) Ambassador to Central African Republic 1996 Arlene Render (FSO) Ambassador to Zambia Sharon P. Wilkinson (FSO) Ambassador to Burkina Faso 1997 Susan Rice Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Ruth A. Davis (FSO) Director of the Foreign Service Institute Aurelia Erskine Brazael (FSO) U.S. Representative to the Organization for European Cooperation and Development Betty Eileen King U.S. Rep. to the U.N. for ECOSOC 1998 Shirley Elizabeth Barnes (FSO) Ambassador to Madagascar Elizabeth Davenport McKune Ambassador to Qatar (FSO) 1999 Harriet L. Elam-Thomas (FSO) Ambassador to Senegal Carol Moseley-Braun Ambassador to New Zealand Sylvia Gaye Stanfield (FSO) Ambassador to Brunei Diane Edith Watson Ambassador to Micronesia 2000 Pamela E. Bridgewater (FSO) Ambassador to Benin Sharon P. Wilkinson (FSO) Ambassador to Mozambique 2001 Arlene Render (FSO) Ambassador to Cote d’Ivoire Mattie R. Sharpless (FSO) Ambassador to the Central African Republic Wanda L. Nesbitt (FSO) Ambassador to Madagascar Ruth A. Davis (FSO) Director General of the Foreign Service 2002 Aurelia Erskine Brazeal (FSO) Ambassador to Ethiopia Robin Renee Sanders (FSO) Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo Gail Dennise Mathieu (FSO) Ambassador to Niger Ruth A. Davis (FSO) Career Ambassador 2004 Margarita Dianne Ragsdale Ambassador to (FSO) Djibouti June Carter Perry (FSO) Ambassador to Lesotho Joyce A. Barr (FSO) Ambassador to Namibia Jendayi E. Frazer Ambassador to South Africa Constance B. Newman Assistant Secretary for African Affairs 2005 Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State __________________________ *Killed in automobile accident en route to post. **Career Foreign Service USAID Officer CHART 2 AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED AS AMBASSADORS OR IN SENIOR POSITIONS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE