Africa: Nine U.S. Ambassadorial Nominees Appear Before Senate Committee for Confirmation

7 May 2008
allAfrica.com

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

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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