Anne Forrester Holloway (June 2, 1941 – June 23, 2006) was an American diplomat who held offices with the

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other n ...

and the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

. From 1979 to 1981, she served as

United States Ambassador to Mali The United States ambassador to Mali is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Mali. Ambassadors *Thomas Kenneth Wright (1960-1961) *William Jules Handley (1961-1964) *Charles Robert Moore (1965-19 ...

Career

Prior to serving as the US Ambassador to Mali, Holloway had been staff director for Andrew Young, when he was

United States Ambassador to the United Nations The United States ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The position is formally known as the permanent representative of the United States of America to the United Nations ...

. From 1985 to her retirement in October 2001, she worked for the U.N. in various capacities: with the

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(UNDP); with the United Nations Regional Bureau for Africa, and with the

United Nations Foundation The United Nations Foundation is a charitable organization headquartered in Washington, DC, that supports the United Nations and its activities. It was established in 1998 with a $1 billion gift to the United Nations by philanthropist Ted Turner, ...

. Following her retirement from the UN, she worked as a senior policy advisor for Rep.

Juanita Millender-McDonald Juanita Millender-McDonald (September 7, 1938 – April 22, 2007) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 until her death in 2007, representing California's 37th congressional distr ...

(D-CA) for a year, then as a consultant on African and Caribbean development issues. In her earlier days, she was the first managing editor o
Drum and Spear Press

Family life

She was born about 1941 in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

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and died June 23, 2006 in

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. She married Marvin Holloway (they later divorced). They had two daughters.

References

External links

Washington Post obituary

U.S Department of State Office of the Historian
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