United States Ambassador to Barbados, Grenada, and Dominica, and Minister to Saint Lucia Nomination of Sally Angela Shelton.

The President today announced that he will nominate Sally Angela Shelton, of Texas, as Ambassador to Barbados, Grenada, the 'Commonwealth of Dominica, and as Minister to Saint Lucia.

She would succeed Frank V. Ortiz, Jr., who is being transferred to another post, as Ambassador to Barbados and Grenada. She would be the first accredited American Ambassador to Dominica and our first accredited Minister to Saint Lucia.

Miss Shelton was born August 29, 1944, in San Antonio, Tex. She received her B.A. in 1966 from the University of Missouri and her M.A. in 1968 from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In 1968 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and in 1969 she was a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University.

In 1969 she was a research assistant at Brookings Institution, and from 1970 to 1971, she was professor of international relations at National Autonomous University of Mexico and Iberoamerican University in Mexico City.

From 1971 to 1977, she was legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen. In 1977 she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. From 1978 to 1979, she was Special Adviser to the United States Mission to the U.N. in New York.