Nomination of G. Norman Anderson To Be United States Ambassador to Sudan

The President announced today his intention to nominate G. Norman Anderson, of Florida, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan. He succeeds Hume Alexander Horan.

Mr. Anderson entered the Foreign Service in 1960 and served as a personnel officer until 1962. He then took Arabic language training at the Foreign Service Institute in Beirut, Lebanon, 1962-1963, before being assigned as political officer in Beirut, 1963-1966. From 1966 to 1967, he took Russian language training at the U.S. Army Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Garmisch, Germany. Following that he was assigned as assistant administrative officer in Moscow from 1967 to 1968, and then political officer, 1968-1969. Mr. Anderson returned to the Department in 1969 to become the Soviet desk officer. In 1971 he was assigned as Egyptian desk officer in the Department until he departed in 1974 for Rabat, Morocco, as political counselor. He served there until 1978, when he was named special assistant to the senior adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Middle East and Soviet Affairs. From 1979 to 1982, he served as deputy chief of mission in Sofia, Bulgaria, and from 1982 to the present, he has been deputy chief of mission in Tunis, Tunisia.

Mr. Anderson served in the United States Navy as a lieutenant from 1954 to 1958. He graduated from Columbia College (B.A., 1954) and School of International Studies (M.I.A., 1960). Mr. Anderson's foreign languages are Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Swedish. He is married to the former Mary (Bonnie) Churchill, has three children, and resides in Tunis, Tunisia. He was born March 26, 1932, in Lewes, DE.