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Africa: Nine U.S. Ambassadorial Nominees Appear Before Senate Committee for Confirmation
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7 May 2008
Posted to the web 7 May 2008
Washington, DC
Nine nominees to serve as U.S. ambassadors in Africa appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for confirmation.
Among the career diplomats named by President Bush for the senior postings are Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who has been the principal deputy the past two years to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer and is slated to become U.S. ambassador to Liberia. The current ambassador in Monrovia, Donald E.Booth, has been appointed ambassador to Zambia.
Donald G. Teitelbaum, who has been the number two U.S. diplomat in South Africa, is in line to become ambassador to Ghana, replacing Pamela Bridgewater. Stephen Nolan, who has been the executive director in the Africa Bureau at the State Department, has been named to the top American post in Botswana.
Others whose nominations reviewed by the Senate committee were Marcia Bernicat, (Senegal and Guinea-Bissau) Gillian Milovanovic (Mali), Peter W. Bodde (Malawi), Marianne M. Myles (Cape Verde) and Patricia Hawkins (Togo).
Their prepared testimony can be found on the committee website:
Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat - to be Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
Gillian Arlette Milovanovic - to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali
Donald Gene Teitelbaum - to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana
Linda Thomas-Greenfield - to be Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia
Patricia McMahon Hawkins - to be Ambassador to the Togolese Republic
Peter W. Bodde - to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi
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Donald E. Booth - to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia
Marianne Matuzic Myles - to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde
Stephen James Nolan - to be Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana
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