Anne S. Andrew

Anne Slaughter Andrew
Anne Slaughter Andrew
United States Ambassador to Costa Rica
	In office; January 12, 2010 – June 13, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Peter Cianchette
Succeeded by	S. Fitzgerald Haney
Personal details
Born	1955 (age 68–69); Evansville, Indiana, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Joe Andrew
Children	2
Education	Georgetown University (BA); Indiana University School of Law (JD)
Profession	Environmental Attorney

Anne Slaughter Andrew (born 1955)^[1] is an American environmental attorney and was the United States Ambassador to Costa Rica from 2010 to 2013 after being appointed by President Barack Obama.^[2]

Early life and education

Born in Evansville, Indiana, Andrew graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Arts. She received her Juris Doctor in 1983 from Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Indiana Law Review.

Andrew is married to former Chair of the Democratic National Committee Joe Andrew and they have two children.

Career

Andrew served as Co-Chair of the Environment/Energy Team at the law firm of Baker & Daniels from 1986 to 2000, and later became a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Patton Boggs, where she practiced from 2001–2003. In 2004, she co-founded a medical bio-tech consulting company, Anson Group LLC, of which she was a co-owner and director from 2004–2007. In 2007, Andrew was a founder of New Energy Nexus, LLC a consulting firm advising companies and investors on strategies related to clean energy technology.^[3]

From 1997 to 1999, Andrew was adjunct professor of law at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis.

Andrew was actively engaged in conservation and environmental protection throughout her career working with organizations like The Clean Economy Network, the Sierra Club, and The Nature Conservancy.

Ambassador to Costa Rica

Andrew was confirmed unanimously to be Ambassador to Costa Rica by the United States Senate on December 24, 2009 and is the first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica.

She presented her credentials on January 12, 2010 and served until June 13, 2013.^[1]

Honors and awards

In 2015, she was awarded the McKinney School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award and in 2020, she was awarded the Bicentennial Medal from Indiana University.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Anne Slaughter Andrews (1955–)
^ Washington Diplomat, January 2010 Archived September 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ "US Embassy in Costa Rica website". Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
^ "Anne Slaughter Andrew: University Honors and Awards: Indiana University". honorsandawards.iu.edu. Indiana University. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

External links

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Peter Cianchette	U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica 2010–2013	Succeeded by S. Fitzgerald Haney

[state-1] Anne Slaughter Andrews (1955–)

[2] Washington Diplomat, January 2010 Archived September 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[3] "US Embassy in Costa Rica website". Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2012-05-25.

[honorsandawards-4] "Anne Slaughter Andrew: University Honors and Awards: Indiana University". honorsandawards.iu.edu. Indiana University. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

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Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Hall Mizner Pacheco Shannon Baker Merry Einstein Hale S. Johnson (a.i.) Martin (a.i.) Thurston (a.i.) R. Davis Eberhardt Sack Hornibrook Lane Scotten
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Des Portes H. Johnson Donnelly N. Davis Flack Fleming Hill Woodward Willauer Telles Boonstra Ploeser Vaky Todman Weissman McNeil Winsor Tambs Hinton Guinot Homme (a.i.) Harrington (a.i.) Becelia (a.i.) de Vos Dodd Danilovich Langdale Brennan (a.i.) Cianchette Andrew Haney Day Telles