Mary Ann Casey

{{Short description|American diplomat (born 1949)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mary Ann Casey | image = | image_size = | order = | ambassador_from = United States | country = Tunisia | term_start = July 5, 1994 | term_end = July 18, 1997 | president = Bill Clinton | predecessor = John T. McCarthy | successor = Robin Lynn Raphel | ambassador_from2 = United States | country2 = Algeria | term_start2 = July 2, 1991 | term_end2 = October 19, 1994 | president2 = Bill Clinton | predecessor2 = Christopher W.S. Ross | successor2 = Ronald E. Neumann | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|11|11}} | birth_place = Boulder, Colorado, U.S. | spouse = | party = | profession = Diplomat, Career Ambassador | blank1 = | data1 = | footnotes = | order2 = 8th }}

'''Mary Ann Casey''' (born November 11, 1949) is an American retired diplomat who was a career Foreign Service Officer and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria (1991–1994)<ref name="us">[https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10360.htm United States Department of State - Chiefs of Mission for Algeria list]</ref> and Tunisia (1994–1997).<ref name="fas">{{cite web|url=http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1994/13233804-13235715.htm|title=USIA News Report|author=US Information Agency|work=US Information Agency|access-date=}}</ref>

==Life and career== Casey was born in Boulder, Colorado on November 11, 1949.<ref name="fas"/> She graduated with a degree in international relations from the University of Colorado at Boulder<ref name="fas"/> in 1970,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cualum.org/awards/norlin-award-winners/ |title=George Norlin Award Recipients | Alumni Association |accessdate=2012-04-26 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309062932/https://www.cualum.org/awards/norlin-award-winners/ |archivedate=2012-03-09 }}</ref> and spent most of her overseas career in northern Africa. Her first assignment was as vice consul and political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Morocco; her most recent overseas position was Ambassador to Tunisia. In between, she spent time as a Watch Officer in the State Department Operations Center, desk officer for Iraq, as a Hoover Institution National Fellow at Stanford, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, and as the Ambassador to Algeria.<ref name="fas"/>

Upon returning from Tunisia, Ambassador Casey became the State Department's "Diplomat in Residence" at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she helped establish the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080402003001/http://www.colorado.edu/oie/ship/ Smith Hall International Program], chaired the International Affairs committee of the university's Conference on World Affairs, and taught several courses on international relations.{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}}

Her foreign languages include Arabic and French.<ref name="fas"/>

==Notes and references== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{cite web|url=http://bushlib.tamu.edu/research/finding_aids/pdfs/1998-0260-F.pdf|title=Records on Women Ambassadors|publisher=George Bush Presidential Library}}

{{S-start}} {{s-dip}} {{Succession box|title=U.S. Ambassador to Algeria|before=Christopher W.S. Ross|after=Ronald E. Neumann|years=1991–1994}} {{Succession box|title=U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia|before=John T. McCarthy|after=Robin Raphel|years=1994–1997}} {{S-end}}

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