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Name: Thomas-Greenfield, Linda
Current Position: Ambassador
Linda Thomas-Greenfield serves as the United States Ambassador to Liberia. She was nominated by President George W. Bush in February 2008, confirmed by the Senate on June 4, 2008, and sworn in on July 18, 2008, by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Thomas-Greenfield graduated from Louisiana State University in 1974 with a BA in political science. She also holds a MA in political science from the University of Wisconsin.
Thomas-Greenfield taught political science at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA before becoming a career member of the Senior Foreign Service in 1982. In Africa, she served in Nigeria, Gambia, and Kenya. Other assignments include: Jamaica, Pakistan, and Switzerland. Her domestic assignments were in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and the Office of the Director General of the Foreign Service.
She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration from June 2004 to January 2006, followed by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau for African Affairs from January 6, 2006 to July 15, 2008.
