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    Career Diplomat Named UC Alumni Regent


     
     
    Ambassador Barbara Bodine, a UCSB diplomat-in-residence as well as an alumnus, was selected for the UC Board of Regents.
    Ambassador Barbara Bodine, currently diplomat-in-residence at UCSB's Global and International Studies Program, was selected earlier this month to serve as an alumni regent on the UC Board of Regents. Her two-year term will begin on July 1, 2002.
    Selected by the UCSB Alumni Association, the 1970 graduate of UCSB will serve her first year as a regent-designate, a nonvoting member at meetings and on committees; during her second year, she will be a full voting member. She will serve concurrently as an officer of the Alumni Associations of the University of California.
    Bodine is also the current president of the UCSB Alumni Association.
    In August 2001, she completed four years as U.S. ambassador to Yemen. A career diplomat, she has served with distinction at posts in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Taiwan, Tunis, Baghdad, and Kuwait.
    In the United States she has been director of East African affairs, deputy director of the Office of Arabian Peninsular Affairs, and associate director of counter- terrorism at the State Department. She also has been a dean at the department's Foreign Service Institute.
    Bodine has received many awards for her work, including the Secretary of State's Award for Valor and the Distinguished Honor Award, the State Department's most prestigious award.
    In 1991 the UCSB Alumni Association presented her with its Distinguished Alumni Award. She earned a master's degree at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.