Garber, Judith Gail, 1961-
Biographical notes:
Judith Gail "Judy" Garber (born 1961) is an American diplomat and the current Ambassador of the United States of America to Cyprus.
Garber earned her bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1984, she worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury. A career foreign service officer, previous overseas postings include Economic Counselor in Madrid, Spain; Deputy Economic Counselor in Tel Aviv, Israel; Economic Officer in Prague, Czech Republic; Economic Officer in Mexico City, Mexico; and Vice Consul in Seville, Spain. Garber’s Washington assignments have included Director for Overseas Development Finance in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, and director of North Central European Affairs in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2007 to 2009, overseeing bilateral relations with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Slovenia.
She served as Ambassador to Latvia from August 2009 until July 2012. Following her first ambassadorship, she served as principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, then acting Assistant Secretary for Oceans, Environment and Science at the Department of State. President Donald Trump nominated Garber to be Ambassador to Cyprus in August 2018. She was confirmed by the Senate and began her second ambassadorship in January 2019.
Garber’s husband, Paul Wisgerhof, also served in the Foreign Service and was deputy director of the Office of Foreign Policy Trade Controls. She has a stepson, Douglas, a son, Ryan, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
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- Ambassadors
- Diplomats
- Foreign service officers
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- Sevilla, 51, ES
- Tel Aviv, 05, IL
- Madrid, 29, ES
- Mexico City, 09, MX
- Prague, 52, CZ
- District of Columbia, DC, US
