Patricia L. Herbold
| Patricia Louise Herbold | |
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| 14th United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore | |
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In office November 7, 2005 – January 20, 2009 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Frank Lavin |
| Succeeded by | David Adelman |
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September 24, 1940  Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
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Patricia Louise Herbold (born 1940) is a chemist, former city mayor, and the former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore.
Ambassador Herbold was born in and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received a B.A. in chemistry from Edgecliff College (now part of Xavier University) in Cincinnati in 1962, graduating cum laude. She later received a J.D. law degree from the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law in 1977, graduating second in her class.
Ambassador Herbold initially worked for the federal government as an analytical chemist dealing with water pollution. She later served as Chief of the Data Processing Unit of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration Lake Erie Program Office.
After working in pollution control, Herbold began a career as an attorney. She was a prosecutor from 1978 to 1979. Later, she was Associate Regional Counsel for Prudential Insurance of America from 1979 to 1988. For two years from 1988 to 1990, she was the General Counsel of Bank One. She was an attorney with the Cincinnati law firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister from 1990 to 1994.
Ambassador Herbold was a member of the City Council of Montgomery, Ohio from 1983 to 1986. She was mayor of the city beginning in 1986.
She moved to Washington state in 1995 when her husband, Robert Herbold became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft Corporation in 1994, where he worked until 2003.
Ambassador Herbold was appointed to be a Commissioner on the Washington State Gambling Commission from 1997 to 2000.
She was elected Chairman of the King County Republican Party in December 2002 and served one term before being appointed Ambassador.
In 2005, Ambassador Herbold was appointed Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Singapore. Soon after her appointment, she presented her credentials to President S. R. Nathan in a ceremony at Istana.
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