LOS ANGELES, California – United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield met His Excellency Wendall Jones, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, and Bahamas Minister of Health Dr. Michael Darville at a Plenary Session of The Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 9.
After she was nominated by President Biden to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 23, 2021 and took office after presenting her credentials on February 25, 2021.
According to Wikipedia, “Beginning on March 1, 2021, the United States became president of the United Nations Security Council; thus Greenfield became president of the council as head of the United States delegation. Her term ended on March 31, 2021. Her next term as President of the UNSC began on May 1, 2022, in the middle of the continuing war in Ukraine by the Russian Federation, and ended on May 31, 2022, being succeeded by the Albanian ambassador, Ferit Hoxha, for June 2022.”
Wikipedia notes that UN Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield that from 2013 to 2017, “served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the United States Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs.”
In 2017 she was terminated by the Trump administration as part of what was a “purge of senior State Department officials and career professionals over nearly four years”, according to the Los Angeles.
Born in Baker, Louisiana, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1974, and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1975.
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield taught political science at Bucknell University, before joining the Foreign Service in 1982.
She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (2004–2006), Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (2006–2008), Ambassador to Liberia (2008–2012), and Director General of the Foreign Service and concurrently as the Director of Human Resources (2012–2013). In addition, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield held foreign postings in Switzerland (at the United States Mission to the United Nations), Pakistan, Kenya, The Gambia, Nigeria, and Jamaica.
From 2013 to 2017, she served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the United States Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs.
In 2017 she was terminated by the Trump administration as part of what was a “purge of senior State Department officials and career professionals over nearly four years”, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield is a non-resident fellow at Georgetown University, having been the distinguished resident fellow in African Studies from fall 2017 to spring 2019.
