Nancy Halliday Ely-Raphel

Nancy Halliday Ely-Raphel (born 1937) is an American diplomat. She was the United States Ambassador to Slovenia from 1998 to 2001. From 2001 to 2003, she was the first Director of the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.[5]

Nancy Halliday Ely-Raphel
3rd United States Ambassador to Slovenia
In office
September 2, 1998 – September 27, 2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byVictor Jackovich
Succeeded byJohnny Young
Personal details
Born
Nancy Halliday

1937 (age 85–86)[1]
Spouse(s)Robert A. Duff (first husband; divorced)
John Hart Ely (second husband; divorced)
Arnold Lewis Raphel (third husband; 1987-1988; his death)[2]
ChildrenWith Robert A. Duff:[3]
John D. Ely
Robert D. Ely
EducationSyracuse University
University of Würzburg
University of San Diego
NicknameNancy Ely[4]

Biography

Early life and education

Ely-Raphel was born in 1937 to Margaret Merritt Halliday and Thomas Clarkson Halliday.[6][7] She has one brother, Thomas Clarkson Halliday III.[7] She graduated from Syracuse University in New York and attended the University of Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany. In 1968, she graduated from University of San Diego School of Law with a juris doctor.[8]

Career

Prior to joining the United States Department of State, she was a San Diego deputy city attorney, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of California, an Associate Dean of Boston University School of Law, and senior trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice's Organized Crime Strike Force.[9][10]

Between 1975 and 2003, she served in a number of legal and policy positions in the State Department, including Assistant Legal Adviser for African Affairs and Nuclear Affairs, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, as well as Legal Adviser to the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan.[2] From 1995 to 1998 she was Coordinator for Bosnia, and assisted in the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords.

On June 29, 1998, she was appointed by President Clinton to be the third United States Ambassador to Slovenia.[10][11] She presented her credentials on September 2, 1998, and left the post on September 27, 2001. From 2001 to 2003 she was Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and the first Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, an office that she established. After that, she was the Counselor on International Law in the Department's Office of the Legal Adviser.[8]

Following her State Department service, she served as vice president and managing director of Save the Children.[12][13][11]

She is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a resident of the District of Columbia.[14][9][10]

Personal life

Her first husband was Dr. Robert A. Duff, of Carlsbad, California. In 1971 she married her second husband, the legal scholar John Hart Ely.[3][15] In 1987 she married her third husband, Arnold Lewis Raphel, the U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, but she was widowed on August 17, 1988, when he was killed in a plane crash.[2] In 2008, Ely-Raphel was described as the "companion of 12 years" of the late diplomat and spy novelist Samuel J. Hamrick, in his obituary.[16]

She has at least one child, Robert Duff Ely, an insurance defense lawyer in New York.[11][3]

References
  1. Mossman, Jennifer (June 2000). Biography and Genealogy Master Index: A Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries. Gale Research Company. ISBN 9780787629977.
  2. "Diplomat Killed in Air Crash is Mourned as Friend of Israel". Jewish Telegraph Agency (Archive). 24 August 1988.
  3. "Mary Jean Bonadonna, Robert Ely (wedding announcement)". The New York Times. 9 August 1998.
  4. "Arnold L. Raphel: An Envoy of Deep Commitment". The New York Times. 18 August 1988.
  5. "Nancy H. Ely-Raphel". NNDB. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
    - "Office of the Historian - Department History - People - Nancy Halliday Ely-Raphel". History.state.gov. 2001-09-27. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
    -"Nancy Halliday Ely-Raphel named as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia". M2.com. 2001-08-01. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
  6. Lawrence Kestenbaum. "Index to Politicians: Ely-raphel to Emerlinda". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2012-09-17.
  7. "CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE" (PDF). Gpo.gov. June 23, 1998. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  8. "Speaker Biographies" (PDF). Berkeley Journal of International Law. 22 (1): 161. 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  9. "Biography: Nancy Ely-Raphel". 1997-2001.state.gov. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  10. "White House Press Release: PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES NANCY HALLIDAY ELY-RAPHEL AS UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA". Clinton Presidential Materials Project. 2 April 1998. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  11. "60 Years of Success". USD School of Law Advocate. Fall 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  12. "Appointments". Washington Post. 20 October 2003. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  13. "Former U.S. Ambassadors to Slovenia". U.S. Embassy in Slovenia. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  14. "Member List". The American Academy of Diplomacy.
  15. "Mrs. Duff Married To Prof. John Ely". The New York Times. 25 November 1971. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  16. "Samuel Hamrick (obituary)". Foreign Service Journal. May 2008.

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