| Frankie A. Reed | |
| Ambassador From: | United States |
| Country: | Fiji |
| Term Start: | October 13, 2011 |
| Term End: | January 18, 2015 |
| Predecessor: | C. Steven McGann |
| Successor: | Judith Beth Cefkin |
| President: | Barack Obama |
| Ambassador From1: | United States |
| Country1: | Kiribati |
| Term Start1: | April 30, 2012 |
| Term End1: | January 18, 2015 |
| President1: | Barack Obama |
| Predecessor1: | C. Steven McGann |
| Successor1: | Judith Beth Cefkin |
| Ambassador From2: | United States |
| Country2: | Nauru |
| Term Start2: | July 16, 2012 |
| Term End2: | January 18, 2015 |
| Predecessor2: | C. Steven McGann |
| Successor2: | Judith Beth Cefkin |
| President2: | Barack Obama |
| Ambassador From3: | United States |
| Country3: | Tuvalu |
| Term Start3: | October 30, 2011 |
| Term End3: | January 5, 2015 |
| Predecessor3: | C. Steven McGann |
| Successor3: | Judith Beth Cefkin |
| President3: | Barack Obama |
| Ambassador From4: | United States |
| Country4: | Tonga |
| Term Start4: | November 14, 2011 |
| Term End4: | January 18, 2015 |
| Predecessor4: | C. Steven McGann |
| Successor4: | Judith Beth Cefkin |
| President4: | Barack Obama |
| Birth Name: | Francesca Annette Reed |
| Occupation: | Diplomat |
Francesca "Frankie" Annette Reed (born 1954, Baltimore)[1] is an American diplomat. She is currently the United States Consul-General in Melbourne. From 2011 to 2015 she was the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu.[2] She has a BA in journalism from Howard University and a doctorate in law from the University of California, Berkeley.
Before her appointment as ambassador, Reed was a deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, responsible for relations with Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. She was previously a lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley.[3]
Reed was deputy chief of mission in Apia, Samoa, from 1999 to 2002, and then in Conakry, Guinea from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008 she was consul general and deputy U.S. observer to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
She has also been deputy director in the Office of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island Affairs, political section chief in Dakar, Senegal and a political officer in Nairobi, Kenya and in Yaounde, Cameroon.Frankie A. Reed arrived in Melbourne in March 2015 to assume the position of Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General Melbourne.
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