Mary Ann Casey

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Mary Ann Casey (born November 11, 1949 in Boulder, Colorado)^[1] is a retired career Foreign Service Officer and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria (1991 - 1994)^[2] and Tunisia (1994-1997).^[1]

Ambassador Casey graduated with a degree in international relations from the University of Colorado at Boulder^[1] in 1970, 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.^[1]

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 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]}

Her foreign languages include Arabic and French.^[1]

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Christopher W.S. Ross	U.S. Ambassador to Algeria 1991–1994	Succeeded by Ronald E. Neumann
Preceded by John T. McCarthy	U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia 1994–1997	Succeeded by Robin Raphel

Persondata
NAME	Mary Ann Casey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boulder, Colorado
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH