The President today announced that he will nominate Jack F. Matlock, Jr., of Coconut Creek, Fla., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. He would replace Francis J. Meehan, who has been appointed Ambassador to Poland. Matlock has been Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute since 1979 and a Foreign Service officer since 1956.
He was born October 1, 1929, in Greensboro, N.C. He received an A.B. from Duke University in 1959 and an M.A. from Columbia University in 1952.
Matlock joined the Foreign Service in 1956 and was posted in Vienna, Oberammergau, Moscow, Accra, and Zanzibar. From 1969 to 1970, he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Dar es Salaam, and in 1970-71 he took the executive seminar in national and international affairs at the Foreign Service Institute.
From 1971 to 1973, Matlock was country director for Soviet affairs at the State Department, and from 1973 to 1974, he was Director of the Office of Soviet Affairs. From 1974 to 1978, he was Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister-Counselor in Moscow. In 1978-79 he was diplomat in residence at Vanderbilt University.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Nomination of Jack F. Mattock, ]r. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/251682