Linda Swartz Taglialatela

Linda Taglialatela
United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Designate
Taking office 2016
President	Barack Obama
Succeeding	Larry Palmer
Personal details
Born	October 22, 1949
Alma mater	State University of New York, Oneonta Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Linda Swartz Taglialatela is a diplomat and United States Ambassador to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS . She was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate on December 9, 2015.^[1]

Early life and education

Taglialatela was born Linda Swartz to Anne and Leon E. Swartz, a veteran and I.B.M. employee. She grew up in Broome County, New York. In 1967 she graduated from Vestal High School. ^[2]She completed her undergraduate studies in 1971 at the State University of New York at Oneonta, where she was awarded a B.A. in Economics. She earned her M.B.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Career

Taglialatela began a career in the public sector in 1973 as a management analyst at the Government Accountability Office. She joined the Foreign Service in 1979. As part of her assignment in the Office of the Inspector General, she inspected dozens of embassies and consulates. ^[3]

In 1987 Taglialatela accepted an assignment as at the embassy in Bern, Switzerland. Two years later she returned to Washington, D.C. to join the Office of Resource Management and Organization Analysis. In 2002 she became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Human Resources. ^[4]

In 2016 she began her role as Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.^[5] By March 2016 she had begun touring her region and presenting her credentials. ^[6]

Personal

She and her husband Carmine Taglialatela divorced.^[7]

References

1. Linda S. Taglialatela, Chief of the U.S. Mission to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and the OECS U.S. Embassy, accessed March 7, 2016
2. Linda Swartz Taglialatela '71 is to be sworn in as Ambassador SUNY Oneonta, accessed March 7, 2016
3. SUNY Broome alumna becomes U.S. ambassador SUNY Broome, February 16, 2016
4. U.S. Ambassador to Barbados: Who Is Linda Swartz Taglialatela?ALLGOV, November 14, 2015
5. Vestal Native To Be Sworn In As U.S. Ambassador January 13, 2016
6. New US ambassador upbeat about US-Caribbean relations I Am Caribbean News February 22, 2016
7. Virginia, Divorce Records, 1999