US President Barack Obama on Friday announced that he would be nominating Pamela Bridgewater to fill the post of US ambassador to Jamaica.
Bridgewater’s nomination comes two weeks after the extradition to the US of former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, and 18 months after former US ambassador to Jamaica Brenda LaGrange Johnson returned to Washington.
Bridgewater is a career diplomat who previously served in Jamaica as deputy chief of mission. Her other overseas postings have included Belgium, South Africa and the Bahamas, and she has served as US amabssador to Ghana and Benin.
She holds a Bachelors degree with honours from Virginia State University and a Masters from the University of Cincinnati.
Bridgewater was among four individuals nominated to key administrative posts in the Obama administration last week.
“The American people will be well served by these outstanding men and women. I am grateful they have chosen to lend their talents to this administration, and I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead,” Obama said, according to a release on the Whitehouse website.
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