Margaret Ann Uyehara (born 1958) was an American
diplomat
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whose last posting, prior to retirement, was as the
United States Ambassador to Montenegro
This is a list of United States ambassadors to Montenegro.
*October 30, 1905–October 27, 1907 John Brinkerhoff Jackson, Resident at Athens
*May 20, 1908–June 29, 1909 Richmond Pearson, Resident at Athens
*May 31, 1910–September 30, 1 ...
. She was nominated by President
Barack Obama
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on July 9, 2014, and
confirmed by the Senate in December 2014.
Early life and education
Uyehara grew up in Berea, Ohio, the daughter of Kenneth E. Yohner and Peggy L. Bush Yohner.
She was an undergraduate at
Kalamazoo College in Michigan and graduated in 1981 with a
Bachelor of Arts
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in
political science
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. She later studied at the
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
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Persons named Edmund include:
People Kings and ...
at
Georgetown University
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Ambassador Margaret Ann Uyehara
U.S. State Department, accessed March 25, 2018
Career
After joining the Foreign Service, Uyehara served in Bamako
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, London
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, Manila
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, and Tokyo
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. She became liaison to the National Security Council for the 50th anniversary of the NATO
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summit. From 1999 to 2002, Uyehara was a supervisory general services officer at the U.S. embassy in Jakarta
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, Indonesia
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.
Uyehara was assigned in 2006 to Kyiv, Ukraine
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, as management counselor at the U.S. embassy. In 2008 she was named as director of the Regional Support Center at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt
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, Germany
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. In 2010 she became a management counselor in Vienna
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, Austria
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.
When she was nominated to become a U.S. ambassador, she was serving in Washington, D.C. as executive director of the Bureaus of European and Eurasian Affairs and International Organization Affairs.[U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro: Who Is Margaret Uyehara?]
AllGov, October 6, 2014
Personal
Uyehara's husband, Michael, is also a Foreign Service Officer
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, they have three sons and two daughters. In addition to English, Uyehara speaks German, French, Ukrainian and Japanese.
See also
*List of ambassadors of the United States
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References
External links
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1958 births
Ambassadors of the United States to Montenegro
American women ambassadors
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
Kalamazoo College alumni
Living people
Obama administration personnel
United States Foreign Service personnel
21st-century American women