Accordance of the Personal Rank of Ambassador to John A. Woodworth While Serving as a Deputy United States Negotiator at the Nuclear and Space Arms Negotiations With the Soviet Union

The President today accorded the personal rank of Ambassador to John A. Woodworth, of Virginia, in his capacity as Deputy United States Negotiator for Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, arms reduction negotiations in Geneva.

Mr. Woodworth began his career as an OSD management intern in 1965-1967, followed by plans analyst, Military Assistant Division, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, in 1967-1968. He was an instructor of history and international politics at the University of South Carolina in 1968-1969. In 1969 he became a defense planner in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. He then was appointed an OSD fellow in public affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1972-1973. In 1973-1978 he served as a nuclear defense planner at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels, Belgium. Mr. Woodworth then became Deputy Director, Office of Theater Nuclear Forces Policy, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1978-1981. In 1980-1981 he was also Assistant Deputy Director, Department of Defense SALT task force. In 1981 he served as Director, Office of Theater Nuclear Forces Policy, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, and then in 1982 became the Secretary of Defense representative of the U.S. delegation to the U.S.–Soviet negotiations on intermediate-range nuclear forces. In 1984 he served as Secretary of Defense Representative on the U.S. delegations to the CSCE Conference on Disarmament in Europe (Switzerland) and to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament (Geneva). He presently serves as Deputy Negotiator for Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, U.S. delegation to the arms reduction negotiations in Geneva.

Mr. Woodworth graduated from Duke University (B.A., 1963) and Georgetown University (M.S., 1966). He served in the United States Air Force in 1968-1969. His foreign language is French. He is married to the former Laura Carver, and they have three children. He was born July 5, 1941, in University Heights, OH.