Anne W. Patterson (born 1949 in Fort Smith, Arkansas), is the current acting United States Ambassador to the United Nations. She took over after the resignation of former Ambassador Senator John Danforth effective on January 20, 2005 and will continue until a permanent replacement is confirmed. On March 7, 2005, President Bush nominated John R. Bolton to become the permanent U.N. Ambassador.

A career diplomat, Patterson entered the Foreign Service in 1973 after attending Wellesley College and the University of North Carolina. After a number of assignments, she was named United States Ambassador to El Salvador in 1997. From 2000 to 2003, she was United States Ambassador to Colombia. She served as Deputy Inspector General of the Department of State from 2003 to 2004. In August 2004, she was appointed America's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

In 2000 while she was Ambassador to Colombia, she and Senator Paul Wellstone were the targets of a failed bomb plot while on an official visit to the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja.

External links

• UN Biography
• CNN story about the Barrancabermeja bomb plot