Judith Fergin

Judith Fergin

Judith R. Fergin (* 1951 in Falmouth , Maine , United States ) is an American diplomat.

Career

Fergin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College and a Masters degree from the University of Virginia and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at National Defense University in 1973 .

She has already worked in the field in Moscow , Monrovia ( Liberia ), Pretoria ( South Africa ) and Munich . In Moscow, a missile hit the office below Fergin's.

Fergin (right) on Hillary Clinton's visit to East Timor

From 1997 to 2011 Fergin was a business advisor at the US Embassy in Jakarta . Here her husband and children had to leave the country prematurely when the Indonesian military rebelled. Fergin stayed at the embassy. From 2002 to 2003 she took part in the diplomatic exchange program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute before returning to work as a business advisor at the US Embassy in Canberra . During this time, the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States was negotiated. This was followed by the post of Deputy Head of Mission in Singapore from 2004 to 2007 and the post of Consul General in Sydney from July 2007 to June 2010 .

With the rank of Minister-Counselor (Minister Counselor) it was of President Barack Obama on June 15, 2010 as the new ambassador of the United States in East Timor nominated. He took office on September 9, 2010, and accreditation took place on September 16. She held this office until December 2013.

Others

Fergin speaks Bahasa Indonesia , among others . Her husband is a retired member of the diplomatic service. They have a son and a daughter together.

Web links

Commons : Judith R. Fergin  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} All Gov: Ambassador to Timor-Leste: Who Is Judith Fergin? , October 23, 2010 , accessed September 4, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} U.S. Department of State: 'Fergin, Judith ( Memento of the original dated August 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 4, 2016. 
3. ↑ Website of the Embassy of the United States in Dili: Former US Ambassadors ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 25, 2015.