United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa Nomination of Anne Clark Martindell.

The President today announced that he will nominate Anne Clark Martindell, of Princeton, N.J., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to New Zealand and to Western Samoa. She would replace Armistead I. Selden, Jr., resigned.

Martindell is Director of the Office of United States Foreign Disaster Assistance.

She was born July 18, 1914, in New York City. She attended Smith College and Sir George Williams College.

From 1963 to 1967, Martindell was a teacher, then reading supervisor, at Miss Mason's School in Princeton. She was a New Jersey State senator from 1973 to 1977. Since 1977 she has been Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. She is a member of the Advisory Council of the Department of Politics at Princeton University.