Carmen Maria Martinez
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Diplomat
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and a career foreign service officer
Foreign Service Officer
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. She served as the United States Ambassador to Zambia
United States Ambassador to Zambia
The history of Ambassadors of the United States to Zambia began in 1964.Until 1964 Zambia had been a colony of the British Empire, first as Northern Rhodesia and then as a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. On December 31, 1963, the federation was dissolved into Rhodesia and Northern...
2005–2008. Prior to that assignment, she was the Chargé d'Affaires ad interim to Burma
United States Ambassador to Burma
This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Burma. In 1989 the military government of Burma changed the name of the nation to Myanmar, but the United States government—and other Western governments—do not accept the name and still refer to the country as Burma in official usage.Burma...
from August 2002 to August 2005. Burma has had no U.S. ambassador since 1990, so Martinez, as chargé d'affaires, was the senior diplomat in the embassy and the head of the mission.