Nomination of Francis Stephen Ruddy To Be United States Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea

The President today announced his intention to nominate Francis Stephen Ruddy, of Texas, as Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. He would succeed Alan M. Hardy.

Mr. Ruddy was with the United States Information Agency as Assistant General Counsel (1969-1972) and Deputy General Counsel and Congressional Liaison (1973-1974). In 1972-1973 he was senior attorney of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, Executive Office of the President. He was counsel at Exxon in Houston, TX, in 1974-1981. Since 1981 he has been Assistant Administrator at the Agency for International Development, Washington, DC.

Mr. Ruddy graduated from Holy Cross College (A.B., 1959), New York University (M.A. 1962; LL.M., 1967), Loyola University Law School (LL.B., 1965), and Cambridge University (Ph.D., 1969). His foreign language is French. He was born September 15, 1937, in Jamaica, NY.