Kathryn Robinson, former ambassador to Ghana, was appointed to the post by President Clinton in 1998 and served until September 2001. From Dayton, Tennessee, she earned the bachelor’s degree from UT in 1972. She was a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor. Her initial foreign-service posting was to the US Consulate General in Mumbai, India. After an assignment in the US Department of State Operations Center and two years of Chinese language training, she served as consular section chief at the US Consulate General in Guangzhou, China. She was a Congressional Fellow for then-Representative Al Gore (D-TN) in 1983–84, deputy director of the Office of Thailand-Burma Affairs, and a management analyst in the Bureau of Consular Affairs before returning to China in 1988 to be consul general at the US Embassy in Beijing. She was principal officer at the US Consulate General in Medan, Indonesia, from 1992 to 1995, and became consul general at the US Embassy in Seoul, Korea, in 1995.