U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands

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	To oppose or discuss a nomination, please go to CZ:Proposed for deletion and follow the instructions. For the monthly nomination lists, see Category:Articles for deletion. In August 2009 Fay Hartog Levin (60) was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands. Before Hartog Levin was chosen to represent the US in the Netherlands, she was a lawyer for more than twenty years. She was also on the board of Chicago's Field Museum (of natural history) and until recently worked as a consultant for the Res Publica Group, a communications and public relations firm. Fay Hartog Levin is a graduate of Northwestern University with a degree in Russian language and literature. She received her J.D. from Loyola University School of Law. The ambassador has The Netherlands|Dutch roots and ties to president Barack Obama that go back to his days as a state senator in Illinois. She is also connected to the president through her husband, Daniel Levin, who founded a real estate firm, The Habitat Company. Hartog-Levin's parents were Dutch Jews who lived in The Hague and owned a meat-processing factory in the city of Oss. When World War II broke out, they fled to Suriname, then a Dutch colony, where her father served in the Dutch army. In 1948 the family emigrated to the US, where daughter Fay was born shortly afterwards. She has spoken with appreciation of the Dutch role in economic development in Afghanistan. ...the Netherlands is not only "very experienced in the field of development aid", but is has also done "important work" in Afghanistan. While the Dutch government plans to terminate its military mission to Uruzgan Province after 2010, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Jan Peter Balkenende indicated the government will consider other ways to participate in Afghanistan. During her time in the Netherlands, she plans to pay attention to young people and Muslims, saying "The US is not the enemy of the Islamic world". It was not observed how this would appeal to Dutch public opinion. Previous ambassadors See U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands/Catalogs for a complete list The list is extremely long, beginning with John Adams in 1781. Nevertheless, information on the recent ones may be useful. The Ambassadorship has been vacant at times, but charge d'affaires|Charges d'affaires ad interim are not included. } Name Dates Notes Robert J. McCloskey 1976-1978 Yes Geri M. Joseph 1978-1881 No William Jennings Dyess 1982-1983 Yes L. Paul Bremer 1983-1986 Yes John Shad 1987-1989 No C. Howard Wilkins, Jr. 1989-1992 No K. Terry Dornbush 1994-1998 No Cynthia Perin Schneider 1998-2001 No Clifford Sobel 2001-2005 No Ronald Arnall 2006-2008 No