Pamela J. H. Slutz
| Pamela J. H. Slutz | |
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| United States Ambassador to Burundi | |
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In office 2009–2012 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Patricia N. Moller |
| Succeeded by | Dawn M. Liberi |
| United States Ambassador to Mongolia | |
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In office 2003–2006 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | John R. Dinger |
| Succeeded by | Mark C. Minton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 13, 1949 |
| Profession | Diplomat, Career Ambassador |
Pamela Jo Howell Slutz (born January 13, 1949) was a career member of the Senior United States Foreign Service who served as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi from November 2009 until February 2012 and as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from September 2003 to September 2006. She was the recipient of two U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Awards and the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive. Ambassador Slutz retired on April 30, 2012. In May 2013 she was named Chairman of the North America-Mongolia Business Council (NAMBC).
Born in Chicago, Illinois where her father, Robert F. Slutz, Jr. earned a Ph.D.in History from the University of Chicago, Pamela Slutz moved to Washington when her father joined the United States Department of State, Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1952. In 1955 her father joined the Foreign Service and was posted overseas. From the age of 6 to 15, Pamela Slutz lived in Palermo, Sicily (1956–58) and Bangkok, Thailand (1958-1964).
Pamela Slutz is an alumna of International School Bangkok (1958-1964), Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland (1964–66), and Hollins University (BA) (1970) where she participated in the Hollins Abroad Program in Paris in 1968-69. She also holds an MA in Asian Studies with specialization in Indonesian studies, (1972) from the University of Hawaii where she was an East-West Center Fellow. She is the recipient of the Hollins University Distinguished Alumnae Award (2010) and was one of fifty East-West Center alumni featured in the Center's Fiftieth Anniversary publication, "50 Years, 50 Stories."
Ambassador Slutz is married to Ronald J. Deutch, a Foreign Service Officer who retired in 2002; they were a tandem Foreign Service couple for 24 years.
After entering the Foreign Service in 1981, she served overseas at U.S. embassies in Kinshasa, Zaire (1982–84) and Jakarta, Indonesia (1984–87). She worked in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political Military Affairs from 1987 to 1989 where she was also a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Talks with the USSR in Geneva.
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