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President
  
Barack Obama

Preceded by
  
Jeanine E. Jackson

Appointed by
  
Barack Obama

President
  
Barack Obama

Role
  
Ambassador

Succeeded by
  
James Knight

Name
  
Gayleatha Brown

Preceded by
  
Wayne E. Neill

Succeeded by
  
Thomas Dougherty


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Died
  
April 19, 2013, Edison, New Jersey, United States

Education
  
Johns Hopkins University, Howard University

Similar People
  
Barack Obama, Ray Mabus, Jeffrey Zients, Cynthia Stroum, Jonathan Adelstein

Gayleatha Beatrice Brown (June 20, 1947 – April 19, 2013) was a United States foreign service officer and ambassador. She has served in several diplomatic posts during her career with the U.S. Department of State including U.S. ambassador to Benin.

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President Obama nominated Brown for the ambassadorial post to Burkina Faso on July 2, 2009. She was confirmed by the Senate on August 4.

Education

Brown was educated in the Red Jacket Elementary School, Matewan Elementary and High Schools in Mingo County, West Virginia. She graduated from high school at Edison High School in Edison, New Jersey. She has BA and MA honor degrees from Howard University. She conducted post-graduate work in international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

Career

Before joining the Department of State, Ambassador Brown was a Special Assistant to the Agency for International Development (USAID) Assistant Administrator for Africa and a legislative assistant in the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress.

Brown’s postings with the Department of State have included:

  • Ambassador to Benin
  • Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa
  • U.S. Consul General at the American Consulate General and concurrently as the U.S. Deputy Permanent Observer to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France
  • Chief of the Economic and Commercial Sections at the U.S. Embassies in Harare, Zimbabwe; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • Desk Officer for Canada, Senegal, Guinea, and Mauritania at the State Department in Washington
  • Economic Officer/Regional United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Representative and Finance and Development Officer at the U.S. Embassies in Paris and Abidjan
  • Representative of the State Department Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Export Credit Arrangement negotiations

    • Honors

  • Lady of the Golden Horseshoe (West Virginia state academic honor)
  • Among the first women Rotarians in Tanzania
  • Charter member of the New Jersey Edison Township High School Alumni Hall of Fame
  • Two Department of State Superior Honor Awards
  • State Department Meritorious Honor Award
  • Honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority and Sandown Rotary Club in Johannesburg, South Africa

    • Ambassador Brown speaks English, French and Swahili. She writes poetry, enjoys reading (particularly mystery novels), and loves dancing, tennis, t'ai chi, and music (especially gospel, soul, jazz, classical). She is a member of the Shiloh Baptist Church (Pilgrim Circle) in Washington, D.C. and is associated with the Community Church of Iselin, New Jersey.

    References

    Gayleatha B. Brown Wikipedia
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