    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [February 20, 1991]
    [Pages 161-162]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of Jennifer C. Ward To Be United States Ambassador to Niger
    February 20, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Jennifer C.
    Ward, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
    Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Niger. She would succeed Carl C.
    Cundiff.
        Since 1989 Dr. Ward has served as Counselor for Political Affairs at
    the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica. Prior to this Dr. Ward served as
    Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Dakar, Senegal, 1986-
    1989; Deputy Director of the Office of Security Assistance and Sales for
    the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the Department of State in
    Washington, DC, 1984-1986; and as senior watch officer for the
    operations center at the Department of State, 1983-1984. Dr Ward has
    also served as Counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in
    Kinshasa, Zaire,
    1981-1983; as Deputy Director at the
    Office of Inter-African Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs at the
    Department of State, 1979-1981; as a consultant for the Office of the
    Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for
    Africa, 1979; and as staff director of the subcommittee on Africa for
    the Committee on Foreign Affairs at the House of Representatives, 1978-
    1979. She has served
    as director of graduate admissions, assistant director of the graduate
    program, and
    lecturer in public and interna-

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    tional affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
    Affairs at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, 1975-1978. From 1971
    to 1973, Dr. Ward served as assistant to the vice president for academic
    affairs and lecturer in social science at the Medgar Evers College of
    the City University of New York. Dr. Ward has served as staff assistant
    and staff associate at Education and World Affairs in New York, NY,
    1968-1971.
        Dr. Ward graduated from Vassar College (B.A., 1965) and the
    University of California, Los Angeles (M.A. and Ph.D., 1976). She was
    born January 29, 1944, in Worcestershire, England. Dr. Ward has one
    child and resides in Washington, DC.