Name Nancy Ely-Raphel Full Name Nancy Halliday | Political party Nonpartisanism | |
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Spouse(s) Robert A. Duff (first husband; divorced)John Hart Ely (second husband; divorced)Arnold Lewis Raphel (third husband; 1987-1988; his death) Children With Robert A. Duff:John D. ElyRobert D. Ely | ||
Nancy Halliday Ely-Raphel (born 1937) is an American diplomat. She was the United States Ambassador to Slovenia from 1998 to 2001.
Biography
Ely-Raphel was born in 1937 to Margaret Merritt Halliday and Thomas Clarkson Halliday. She has one brother, Thomas Clarkson Halliday III. She graduated from Syracuse University in New York and attended the University of Wurzburg in Würzburg, Germany. In 1968, she graduated from University of San Diego School of Law with a juris doctor.
Prior to joining the United States Foreign Service, she was a lawyer and Associate Dean of Boston University School of Law. From 2001 to 2003 she was the Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. State Department. On June 29, 1998, she was appointed by President Clinton to be the United States Ambassador to Slovenia.
She was presented her credentials on September 2, 1998, and left the post on September 27, 2001.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a resident of the District of Columbia.
She was previously known as Nancy Ely.