Janice L. Jacobs

Janice L. Jacobs

Janice Lee Jacobs (born 1946) is a United States career Senior Foreign Service Officer who is the current Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, since June 2008. She was United States Ambassador to Senegal concurrently accredited to Guinea-Bissau from April 2006 to June 2007.

Biography

Personal

Janice L. Jacobs was educated at Southern Illinois University, receiving a B.A. in French in 1968. She later received a M.A. in National Security Strategy from the National War College in 1995. Her husband, Ken Friedman, works for the Department of Defense. Jacobs spent many years overseas as a dependent of her father who was an education officer with USAID and of her first husband, Royce Fichte, a Foreign Service Officer.

Career

Jacobs joined the United States Foreign Service in March 1980. In her career as a Foreign Service Officer, she was posted in Senegal, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia (twice), France, Mexico (twice), Nigeria, and Thailand. She also spent time posted to the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C., in the State Department’s Visa Office, Operations Center, and Office of Cuban Affairs. In 2000, she became Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy in Santo Domingo. In October 2002, she moved to Washington, D.C. to become Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services.

In February 2006, President of the United States George W. Bush named Jacobs United States Ambassador to Senegal and United States Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau. She presented her credentials on May 9, 2006 and formally left Dakar on July 15, 2007.

President Bush nominated Jacobs as Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs and she was sworn into this office on June 10, 2008.

References

External links

• State Department Biography