United States Ambassador to Malta Nomination of Ivan M. Clark.

The President today announced that he will nominate Joan M. Clark, of Great Neck, N.Y., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Malta. She would replace Lowell B. Laingen, who has been reassigned.

Clark was born March 27, 1922, in Ridgefield Park, N.J. She attended Katherine Gibbs School in New York.

She began her career with the Foreign Service in 1945 as a clerk, then administrative assistant, in Berlin. She was economic assistant in London from 1951 to 1953 and administrative assistant in Belgrade from 1953 to 1957. From 1957 to 1962, she served at the State Department as a placement officer, then administrative officer.

From 1962 to 1968, Clark was administrative officer in Luxembourg. In 1968-69, she was coordinator for administrative training at the State Department's School of Professional Studies. From 1969 to 1971, she was personnel officer, then administrative officer, at the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs at the State Department.

From 1971 to 1977, Clark served in the Bureau of European Affairs, as Deputy Executive Director, then Executive Director. Since 1977 she has been Director of the State Department's Office of Management Operations.