United States Ambassador to Honduras Nomination of lack Robert Binns.

The President today announced that he will nominate Jack Robert Binns, of Spokane, Wash., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Honduras. He would replace Mari-Luci Jaramillo, who is being appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Binns has been Deputy Chief of Mission in San Jose, Costa Rica, since 1979.

He was born May 13, 1933, in Eugene, Oreg. He received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1956. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1952 to 1962.

Binns joined the Foreign Service in 1962 and was posted in Guatemala, La Paz, and at the State Department. He was a labor trainee at Harvard University in 1966-67. He was posted in San Salvador from 1967 to 1971, as labor officer, then political officer.

From 1971 to 1974, Binns was an international relations officer at the State Department. From 1974 to 1979, he was political officer in London.