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Hon. Howard Franklin Jeter
 Howard
F. Jeter served as Ambassador to Nigeria. Before that he was
Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs from June 1999 until July
2000. Previously, Ambassador Jeter was Director of West African Affairs
from September 1997 until June 1999, and also served as the President’s
Special Envoy for Liberia.
Recently, Ambassador Jeter has focused on promoting peace and
reconciliation in Liberia and Sierra Leone. He has also been intimately
involved in developing U.S. policy toward Nigeria, with special emphasis
on supporting an enduring transition to democracy and prosperity. Prior
to becoming the Special Presidential Envoy for Liberia in July 1996, he
served with distinction as the U.S. Ambassador to Botswana from 1993 to
1996.
Ambassador Jeter, a career diplomat, was Deputy Chief of Mission in
Namibia from September 1990 to July 1993. During that period, he also
served as Charge d'Affaires, following the departure of the incumbent
Ambassador in September 1992. Before going to Namibia, he was Deputy
Chief of Mission and later Charge d'Affaires in Lesotho. He also held
various political, economic, commercial, and consular positions in U.S.
Embassies in Mozambique, Tanzania, and in the Temporary Liaison Office
in Windhoek, Namibia.
In the Department of State, Ambassador Jeter served in the Bureau of
Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, where he
specialized on issues dealing with the Law of the Sea. He is the
recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Service Award, State
Department Superior Honor Awards and Senior Foreign Service Performance
Awards. Outside, he has received the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Charles
Diggs Award for the Promotion of U.S.-Africa Policy and the prestigious
Bennie Trailblazer Award from Morehouse College. Ambassador Jeter's
languages include Portuguese, Swahili and French.
Ambassador Jeter holds a BA Degree in Political Science from Morehouse
College in Atlanta, Georgia, a MA in International Relations and
Comparative Politics from Columbia University, and a MA in African Area
Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Ambassador Jeter
is a former Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellow, International Fellow at
Columbia University, Merrill Overseas Study-Travel Scholar, Legislative
Intern in the Georgia House of Representatives and a participant in
Operation Crossroads Africa. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the
American Foreign Service Association and the Council on Foreign
Relations.
Ambassador Jeter was born in South Carolina on March 6, 1947. He and his
wife, Donice, have two children, Malaika and Jason.
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