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Preceded by
  
Joyce Anne Barr

Name
  
Gail Mathieu

Succeeded by
  
Wanda Nesbitt

Education
  
Antioch College

President
  
George W. Bush

Appointed by
  
George W. Bush

Succeeded by
  
Bernadette Allen


Gail D. Mathieu

President
  
George W. Bush Barack Obama

Preceded by
  
Barbro A. Owens-Kirkpatrick

Similar
  
Kristie Kenney, William Garvelink, Gene Cretz, John Roberts, Roderick W Moore

Gail Dennise Thomas Mathieu (born 1951) is the current political advisor to the Commander, United States Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. She is the former United States Ambassador to Namibia and former United States Ambassador to Niger.

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Life and education

Mathieu is a native of New Jersey, but earned a B.A. degree from Antioch College. She returned to New Jersey and earned her J.D. degree from Rutgers University-Newark.

Career

She was initially an assistant prosecutor for the city of Newark, New Jersey, but then began a career in the Foreign Service.

Other diplomatic posts

  • 1999-2002 - Deputy Chief of Mission in Accra, Ghana
  • 1997-1999 - Deputy Director of the Office of West African Affairs
  • 1995-1997 - Deputy Director of the Office of Pacific Island Affairs

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