Margaret A. Uyehara

Margaret Ann Uyehara (born 1958) was an American diplomat whose last posting, prior to retirement, was as the United States Ambassador to Montenegro. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 9, 2014, and confirmed by the Senate in December 2014.[1][2]

Margaret Uyehara
United States Ambassador to Montenegro
In office February 19, 2015 – July 24, 2018
President	Barack Obama Donald Trump
Preceded by	Sue K. Brown
Succeeded by	Judy Rising Reinke
Personal details
Born	1958 (age 62–63) Berea, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	Kalamazoo College Georgetown University

Early life and education

Uyehara grew up in Berea, Ohio, the daughter of Kenneth E. Yohner and Peggy L. Bush Yohner.[3] She was an undergraduate at Kalamazoo College in Michigan and graduated in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. She later studied at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University[4]

Career

After joining the Foreign Service, Uyehara served in Bamako, London, Manila, and Tokyo. She became liaison to the National Security Council for the 50th anniversary of the NATO summit. From 1999 to 2002, Uyehara was a supervisory general services officer at the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Uyehara was assigned in 2006 to Kyiv, Ukraine, as management counselor at the U.S. embassy. In 2008 she was named as director of the Regional Support Center at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2010 she became a management counselor in Vienna, Austria.

When she was nominated to become a U.S. ambassador, she was serving in Washington, D.C. as executive director of the Bureaus of European and Eurasian Affairs and International Organization Affairs.[5]

Personal

Uyehara's husband, Michael, is also a Foreign Service Officer, they have three sons and two daughters. In addition to English, Uyehara speaks German, French, Ukrainian and Japanese.[5]

See also

• List of ambassadors of the United States

References

1. Margaret Ann Uyehara U.S. State Department, accessed May 10, 2016
2. The Senate made a few people happy this week, but it’s high anxiety for others The Washington Post, December 19, 2014
3. Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 147 (Thursday, December 4, 2014) Congressional Record, accessed May 10, 2016
4. Ambassador Margaret Ann Uyehara U.S. State Department, accessed March 25, 2018
5. U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro: Who Is Margaret Uyehara? AllGov, October 6, 2014

External links

Media related to Margaret A. Uyehara at Wikimedia Commons