Jessica LeCroy

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Jessica LeCroy was the Consul General at the United States Consulate in Toronto, Canada from September 2004 to March 2006. She took the post in September 2004 after serving assignments outside the Department of State for two years as National Security Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury, and a year in Baghdad as Executive Officer to the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and Director of the CPA Executive Secretariat.

A career Foreign Service Officer, Ms. LeCroy's overseas assignments have included Tbilisi, Georgia, where she assisted in opening the U.S. embassy after the fall of the former Soviet Union and served in various positions from Charge d'Affaires to political and economic head of sections; Bosnia as a political officer, where she concentrated on media and elections issues; The Netherlands, as an administrative officer; and Nicaragua, as a consular and human rights officer.

Ms. LeCroy's domestic assignments in the Department of State include service as Senior Advisor to the Ambassador at Large for Regional Conflicts in the Newly Independent States, Deputy Director for the Office of UK, Benelux and Ireland Affairs, Senior Watch Officer in the Department's 24-hour Operations Center, head of the U.S. telecommunications delegation to COCOM on the transfer of sensitive technology to the then-Soviet Union, and Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs and Policy in the Office of the Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism.

[edit] Awards and Honors

Ms. LeCroy was awarded a Salzburg Fellowship in international arbitration and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship, where she worked as Senior Legislative Assistant for Trade and Foreign Policy for Senator Bill Bradley (NJ). She is the recipient of several State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, as well as the Matilda Sinclaire Award for achievement in a difficult language (Georgian). Her foreign language studies include Spanish, French, German, Russian and Georgian.

[edit] Education

Before joining the Foreign Service, Ms. LeCroy practiced banking and commercial law in Dallas, Texas, and managed the family agri-business in her native Mississippi. She is a graduate of the National War College, Boston University School of Law, and the University of Virginia, and has completed post-graduate work at Oxford University (Trinity College), University of London (King's College), University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Carleton University in Ottawa, and the Peace Palace at The Hague.