Carmen Maria Martinez (born 1950) is a United States

diplomat A diplomat (from grc, δίπλωμα; romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or internati ...

and a career

foreign service officer A Foreign Service Officer (FSO) is a commissioned member of the United States Foreign Service. Foreign Service Officers formulate and implement the foreign policy of the United States. FSOs spend most of their careers overseas as members of U ...

. She served as the

United States Ambassador to Zambia The history of ambassadors of the United States to Zambia began in 1964. Until 1964 Zambia had been a colony of the British Empire, first as Northern Rhodesia and then as a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. On December 31, 1963, ...

from 2005 to 2008. Prior to that assignment, she was the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Burma from August 2002 to August 2005. Burma had no U.S. ambassador from 1990 until 2012, so Martinez, as ''chargé d'affaires'', was the senior diplomat in the embassy and the head of the mission.

References

External links

U.S. Department of State: Ambassadors to Burma
(labelled out-of-date)

1950 births Living people Ambassadors of the United States to Myanmar Ambassadors of the United States to Zambia Hispanic and Latino American diplomats United States Foreign Service personnel American women ambassadors 21st-century American women {{US-diplomat-stub