The President today announced his intention to nominate Loret M. Ruppe to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Norway. She would succeed Robert D. Stuart.
Since 1981 Mrs. Ruppe has been Director of the Peace Corps in Washington, DC. Prior to this, she was the cochairman of the Reagan/Bush committee in Michigan, 1980, and chairman of the George Bush for President campaign for the State of Michigan, 1979 - 1980.
Mrs. Ruppe attended Marymount College and Marquette University. She was born January 3, 1936, in Milwaukee, WI. She is married, has five daughters, and resides in Bethesda, MD.
George Bush, Nomination of Loret M. Ruppe To Be United States Ambassador to Norway Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/262906