Melissa Foelsch Wells - People - Department History
Melissa Foelsch Wells (1932–)
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Career Foreign Service Officer
States of Residence: New York, Connecticut
States of Residence: New York, Connecticut
- Concurrent Appointments
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Cape Verde)
Appointed: September 16, 1976
Presentation of Credentials: November 18, 1976
Termination of Mission: Left post on March 23, 1977- Also accredited to Guinea-Bissau; resident at Bissau.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Guinea-Bissau)
Appointed: September 16, 1976
Presentation of Credentials: November 29, 1976
Termination of Mission: Left post on March 29, 1977- Also accredited to Cape Verde; resident at Bissau.
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Cape Verde)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Mozambique)
Appointed: September 11, 1987
Presentation of Credentials: September 26, 1987
Termination of Mission: Left post on October 12, 1990 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Congo (Kinshasa))
Appointed: April 25, 1991
Presentation of Credentials: June 11, 1991
Termination of Mission: Left post on March 21, 1992 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Estonia)
Appointed: October 1, 1998
Presentation of Credentials: November 3, 1998
Termination of Mission: Left post on September 10, 2001