Jimmy Carter: Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments Announcement of Formation and Membership of the Board.

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Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments Announcement of Formation and Membership of the Board.
February 3, 1977

Jimmy Carter
1977: Book I

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The President has invited a group of 20 Americans to constitute a Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments. The Board, which is comprised of persons with backgrounds varying from education to government and diplomacy, will examine the qualifications of candidates under consideration for certain ambassadorial posts. It will advise the President and the Secretary of State, in confidence, of its findings.

The work of the Board will help to ensure that only qualified individuals are nominated by the President to serve as American ambassadors abroad. The Board will consider prospective nominees for ambassadorial posts for which noncareer individuals are being considered. The names of career Foreign Service officers as well as of prospective nominees from outside the Service will be submitted to the Board by the Secretary of State.

Governor Reubin Askew, of Florida, will chair the Board. To ensure their objectivity, members of the Board will be asked to agree not to accept appointment to an ambassadorial post during their service on the board, or for a period of at least one year thereafter.

Members of the commission on ambassadorial appointments are:

ANNE CLARK MARTINDELL, State senator from New Jersey
JOAN MASUCK, Unitarian Universal Association Planning Committee, Omaha, Nebr.
CHRIS GITLIN, Cleveland Council on Human Relations
NANCY FLAHERTY, assistant for Special Projects for Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation
MARY JEAN PATTERSON, director, Washington office of the United Presbyterian Church
Gov. REUBIN ASKEW, Florida
MAURICE FERRE, mayor, Miami, Fla.
PROFESSOR JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, University of Chicago
AVERELL HARRIMAN
PROFESSOR STANLEY HOFFMANN, Harvard University
DEAN Rusk
ALEX SEITH, partner, Lord, Bissell and Brook
DONALD STEWART, president, Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga.
TOM O'NEILL, Lieutenant Governor, Massachusetts
MARIA DURAN, television producer, Miami, Fla.
BEN WATTENBERG, author
LEONARD WOODCOCK, president, United Auto Workers
BARBARA WHITE, president, Mills College, California
VILMA MARTINEZ, president and general counsel, Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund
GOV. WILLIAM SCRANTON, Scranton, Pa.

Citation: John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, CA. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7478.

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