United States Ambassador to Mall Nomination of Anne Forrester Holloway.

The President today announced that he will nominate Anne Forrester Holloway, of Washington, D.C., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Mali. She would replace Patricia M. Byrne, who is being transferred to another post.

Holloway has been special assistant and director of the office of the Ambassador to the United Nations since 1977.

She was born June 2, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pa. She received a B.A. from Bennington College in 1963, an M.A. from Howard University in 1968, and a Ph.D. from Antioch/Union Graduate School in 1975.

From 1963 to 1966, she was a history teacher at Northfield School, East Northfield, Mass. She was a lecturer at Howard University in the African studies program in 1968-69 and was director of Drum and Spear Press, a publishing house, from 1969 to 1970.

In 1970-71 Holloway was visiting assistant professor in the black and African studies program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1971 to 1972, she was associate director for legislative affairs of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

From 1972 to 1975, Holloway was executive director of the Black Student Fund. From 1975 to 1977, she was legislative assistant for foreign affairs to then-Congressman Andrew Young.