Heather M. Hodges

Heather M. Hodges (* in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American career diplomat. She was up to their expulsion the U.S. Ambassador in Ecuador.

Life

Hodges studied Spanish at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul; then she earned a M. A. at New York University. During the 1970s she lived in Madrid. In 1980, she joined the Foreign Service of the United States and was first sent to Caracas and then to Guatemala. In Washington, she worked as a Desk Officer for Peru. In 1987, Hodges a Pearson Fellowship to work in the U.S. Congress; they advised the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and refugee issues. In 1989 she was Consul General at the U.S. consulate Bilbao. Hodges 1991, he returned back as Deputy Head of the Cuban Affairs in Washington.

1993 Hodges was ambassador in Managua. From August 1996 to June 1997 Hodges graduated from a program for selected executives of the Foreign Service. Subsequently, she was ambassador in Lima July 1997 to May 2000 and then in Madrid, June 2000 to July 2003, the Spanish government gave Hodges awarded " Isabel la Catolica - encomienda de Numero ". .

From 2003 to 2006 Hodges was U.S. Ambassador to Moldova. The Moldovan government drew from an awards ceremony. After use in the U.S. State Department Hodges was sworn in 2008 as an ambassador for Ecuador, where she followed Linda Jewell.

On April 5, 2011 Ecuador Hodges declared persona non grata.