United States Ambassador to Chad Nomination of Donald R. Norland.

The President today announced that he will nominate Donald R. Norland, of Grantham, N.H., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Chad. He would replace William G. Bradford, resigned.

Norland has been Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, the Kingdom of Lesotho, and the Kingdom of Swaziland since 1976.

He was born June 14, 1924, in Laurens, Iowa. He received a B.A. (1948) and M.A. (1950) from the University of Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946.

Norland was an instructor at Iowa State Teachers College from 1949 to 1951, and a teaching fellow at the University of Michigan in 1951-52. He entered the Foreign Service in 1952 and was posted in Rabat and Abidjan and served at the State Department.

From 1961 to 1963, Norland was political officer in Paris. In 1963-64 he was detailed to the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base under the State-Defense Department exchange program. From 1964 to 1969, he was posted in The Hague as political officer, then counselor for political affairs.

Norland was a State Department fellow at Stanford University in 1969-70 and served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Conakry from 1970 to 1972. He was a political-military affairs officer at the State Department from 1972 to 1973, and a personnel officer from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1976, he was Deputy Director for Management Operations in the Office of the Under Secretary for Management.