Judith Fergin
Judith R. Fergin | |
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| File:Judith Fergin ambassador.jpg | |
| United States Ambassador to East Timor | |
| In office September 9, 2010 – September 20, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Hans G. Klemm |
| Succeeded by | Karen Clark Stanton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Judith Ryan Fergin 1951 (age 74–75) |
| Alma mater | Smith College (B.A.) University of Virginia (M.A.) |
Judith Ryan Fergin (born 1951) is an American diplomat who was the United States ambassador to East Timor.[1] Her term of appointment began on September 9, 2010, succeeding Hans G. Klemm, and ended in 2013.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Fergin received a B.A. degree from Smith College and M.A. degrees from the University of Virginia and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces of the National Defense University.
She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She was previously Deputy Chief of Mission in Embassy Singapore and Consul General in Sydney, Australia. She has also served as Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra and the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, as well as in overseas posts in Russia, Liberia, South Africa, and Germany.[2]
Honours
[edit | edit source]Foreign Honours
[edit | edit source]- File:Flag of East Timor.svg East Timor
- File:Order of Timor-Leste.png Medal of the Order of Timor-Leste, Timor Leste (May 16, 2012)[3]
References
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External links
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- Judith Fergin (1951–), Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
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- Smith College alumni
- University of Virginia alumni
- Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy alumni
- Ambassadors of the United States to Timor-Leste
- Living people
- Recipients of the Order of Timor-Leste
- 1951 births
- United States Foreign Service personnel
- Women ambassadors of the United States
- 21st-century American diplomats
- 21st-century American women
- American diplomat stubs