Barbara Bodine
| Barbara Bodine | |
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| United States Ambassador to Yemen | |
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In office November 7, 1997 - August 30, 2001 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | David George Newton |
| Succeeded by | Edmund James Hull |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 28, 1948 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Alma mater | (BA) University of California, Santa Barbara (MA) Tufts University |
Barbara K. Bodine (born August 28, 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American academic and former diplomat. Bodine directs the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI) and lectures at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Bodine earned her B.A. in political science and Asian studies magna cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She became a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, Gamma Rho chapter, fraternity for women. She received her master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Department of State's Language Training Field Schools in Taiwan and Tunisia. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and serves on the Board of Directors of the UCSB Alumni Association and on the Advisory Council to the Program on Southwest Asian and Islamic Civilization Studies at the Fletcher School. She was the recipient of the UC Santa Barbara Distinguished Alumni Award in 1991.
After initial tours in Hong Kong and Bangkok, Bodine spent her career working primarily on Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. She has twice served in the Bureau of Near East Affairs' Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, first as Country Officer for the Yemenis, then as Political-Military officer for the peninsula. She later served as Deputy Office Director. She had assignments as Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad, and as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and occupation in 1990. She was awarded the Secretary of State's Award for Valor for her work in occupied Kuwait during the Gulf War.
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