United States Ambassador to Malaysia Nomination of Barbara M. Watson.

The President today announced that he will nominate Barbara M. Watson, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Malaysia. She would replace Robert H. Miller, resigned.

Watson has been Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs since 1977.

She was born November 5, 1918, in New York City. Watson received an A.B. in 1943 from Barnard College and an LL. B. in 1962 from New York Law School.

From 1943 to 1946, she was an interviewer with the United Seamen's Service of New York. Watson was owner and executive director of Barbara Watson Models from 1946 to 1956 and a clerk with The Christophers of New York from 1956 to 1957. From 1958 to 1959, she was coordinator of student activities and foreign student adviser at Hampton Institute. Watson was a statutory aide with the Board of Statutory Consolidation of New York from 1962 to 1963 and assistant attorney with the law department for New York City from 1963 to 1964. From 1964 to 1966, she was executive director of the New York City Commission to the United Nations.

She served as special assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration in 1966 and as Deputy and Acting Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs from 1966 to 1968. From 1968 to 1974, she was Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. From 1975 to 1976, she was a lecturer to colleges and universities in the United States and from 1976 to 1977, she was legal consultant with Triangle Publications, Inc.