Career
Parris entered the Foreign Service in 1972 and served from 1973 to 1977 in the Azores and in Lisbon. He was director of the office of Soviet Union affairs from 1985 to 1988 with posts in the Soviet Union, Israel and Portugal. President Bill Clinton nominated Parris as Ambassador to Turkey on August 29, 1997. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 29, 1997, and sworn in on November 10, 1997. He served until 2000. He was a member of The Brookings Institute, advising the institute on Turkey, in 2007.Awards
Parris was given the Superior Honor Award twice and the Presidential Meritorious Honor Award on three occasions.Book
* ''The U.S.-Soviet Bilateral Relationship'' (1987, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division)References
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