[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.