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Maryruth Coleman became Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia in August 2005. Ms. Coleman joined the
Foreign Service in November 1987. She comes to Slovenia from the State
Department’s Office of Nordic and Baltic Affairs, where she served as
Deputy Director and helped manage U.S. policy to integrate the Baltic
countries into Euro-Atlantic institutions. Ms. Coleman served in the
Economic and Consular sections at the U.S. Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria in
her first overseas assignment from 1988-90. Subsequently, she worked
as an Economic Officer at U.S. Embassy Moscow from 1991-93, and headed
the Political-Economic Section at the American Embassy in Riga, Latvia
from 1997-2000. In her domestic assignments in Washington, Ms. Coleman
has served as a coordinator in the Office of Assistance to the New
Independent States (1994-95), as Special Assistant to the Under
Secretary for Economic Affairs (1995-96), and as Senior Political
Officer in the Office of European Union Affairs (2000-2002), where she
managed preparations for Ministerial and summit meetings between the
United States and the European Union. Before
entering the State Department, Ms. Coleman was Assistant Professor of
Political Science and East Asian Studies at Connecticut College in New
London, Connecticut. She did doctoral research for two years at Nanjing
University as one of the first American exchange scholars to study in
China after normalization of U.S.-Chinese diplomatic relations. She
has a PhD. in Political Science from Harvard University, Masters
degrees in Political Science and East Asian Studies from Harvard and
Stanford Universities, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Regis
College, in Weston, Massachusetts. Ms. Coleman was born in Boston,
Massachusetts. Her husband, John L. Withers, II, is also a Foreign
Service Officer and is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Albania.
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