Nomination of April Catherine Glaspie To Be United States Ambassador to Iraq

The President today announced his intention to nominate April Catherine Glaspie, of California, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq. She would succeed David George Newton.

Since 1985 Ms. Glaspie has been Director of the Office of Jordan, Lebanon, and Syrian Affairs in the Department of State. From 1983 to 1985, she served as political officer and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria. Ms. Glaspie has been Director of the language institute at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, 1981-1983; political officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York, 1980-1981; political officer at the U.S. Embassy in London, England, 1978-1980; staff assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1977-1978; and political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, 1973-1977. Ms. Glaspie has been a member of the Foreign Service since 1966.

Ms. Glaspie graduated from Mills College (B.A., 1963) and Johns Hopkins University (M.A., 1965). She is articulate in Arabic and French. Ms. Glaspie was born April 26, 1942, in Vancouver, Canada, and currently resides in Washington, DC.