    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George H. W. Bush (1991, Book I)]
    [April 18, 1991]
    [Pages 391-392]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Nomination of Mary Ann Casey To Be United States Ambassador to Algeria
    April 18, 1991

        The President today announced his intention to nominate Mary Ann
    Casey, of Colorado, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class
    of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
    United States of America to the Democratic and Popular Republic of
    Algeria. She would succeed Christopher W.S. Ross.
        Since 1989 Ms. Casey has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for
    Regional Analysis for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the
    Department of State in Washington, DC. Prior to this Ms. Casey served at
    the Department of State as Director of North African Affairs, 1987-1989;
    studied at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, 1986-1987; and
    served as Deputy Director of the Office for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and
    Iraq at the Department of State, 1984-1986. From 1981 to 1984, Ms. Casey
    served as political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia. Ms.
    Casey has served at the State Department in several capacities
    including: country officer for Iraq, 1978-1980; staff assistant for
    policy planning, 1977-1978; and watch officer in the Operations Center,
    1976-1977. In addition, Ms. Casey served as consul and political officer
    at the U.S. Embassy in Rabat, Morocco, 1974-1976.
        Ms. Casey graduated from the University

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    of Colorado (B.A., 1970). She was born November 11, 1949, in Boulder,
    CO. Ms. Casey resides in Falls Church, VA.