O'Neal, Adrienne S., 1954-

Adrienne S. O'Neal (born 1954) is a retired American diplomat. She most notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Cabo Verde (2011-2015).

Born in Durham, North Carolina in 1954 and raised in New Orleans, O’Neal graduated from Spelman College in 1976 with dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Spanish Language and Business Administration. Two years later, she graduated from Middlebury College (Vermont) with a Master of Modern Languages degree in Spanish Language and Literature. In 1983, after a brief period in the Ph.D. program in Spanish and Portuguese Literature at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, she decided to pursue a career in the U.S. Foreign Service. Her first assignment in 1984 was at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy. This was followed by a posting at the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1987.

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