The President today announced that he will nominate Phillip R. Trimble, of New York City, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Kingdom of Nepal. He would replace L. Douglas Heck, resigned.
Trimble was deputy mayor of New York City for intergovernmental relations from 1978 to 1979.
He was born November 12, 1937, in Springfield, Ohio. He received an A.B. from Ohio University in 1958, an M.A. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1959, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1963. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Rangoon (Burma) in 1960.
From 1963 to 1964, Trimble was a teaching associate at the School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1964 to 1971, he was an attorney with the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
From 1971 to 1972, Trimble was on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff. From 1972 to 1974, he again practiced with Cravath, Swaine & Moore. From 1974 to 1977, he was Assistant Legal Adviser for Economics and Business at the State Department.
Trimble was the leader of a successful American expedition to Mount Everest in 1976 and has led several other mountaineering expeditions.
Jimmy Carter, United States Ambassador to Nepal Nomination of Phillip R. Trimble. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250039