Patricia Louise Herbold | |
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| 14th United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore | |
| In office November 7, 2005 – January 20, 2009 | |
| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Frank Lavin |
| Succeeded by | David I. Adelman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1940-09-24)September 24, 1940 (age 85) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
Patricia Louise Herbold (born 1940) is a chemist, former city mayor, and the former United StatesAmbassador to theRepublic of Singapore.
Herbold was born in and grew up inCincinnati, Ohio. Born into a family of five children, Herbold's father left the family due to a gambling addiction and her mother raised the five children by herself.[1] Unable to raise the five children, Herbold and her four siblings were left at St. Joseph’s Orphanage in Ohio.[1] Herbold would stayed at the orphanage from fifth grade until after eighth grade.[1]
She received a B.A. in chemistry from Edgecliff College (now part ofXavier University) in Cincinnati[1] in 1962, graduating cum laude. She later received a J.D. degree from theNorthern Kentucky UniversitySalmon P. Chase College of Law in 1977, graduating second in her class.
Herbold initially worked for the federal government as an analytical chemist dealing with water pollution. She later served as Chief of the Data Processing Unit of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration Lake Erie Program Office.
After retiring from the federal government, Herbold began a career as an attorney. She was a prosecutor and had a private practice from 1978 to 1979. Later, she was Associate Regional Counsel for Prudential Insurance of America from 1979 to 1988. For two years from 1988 to 1990, she was the General Counsel of Bank One, Dayton, Ohio. She was an attorney with the Cincinnati law firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister from 1990 to 1994.
Herbold was a member of the City Council ofMontgomery, Ohio from 1983 to 1986. She was mayor of the city beginning in 1986.
She moved to Washington state in 1995 when her husband, Robert Herbold became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer ofMicrosoft Corporation in 1994, where he worked until 2003.
Herbold was appointed to be a Commissioner on the Washington State Gambling Commission from 1997 to 2000.
She was elected Chairman of theKing County Republican Party in December 2002 and served one term before being appointed Ambassador.[2]
In 2005, Herbold was appointed Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Singapore. Soon after her appointment, she presented her credentials to PresidentS. R. Nathan in a ceremony atIstana.
On May 18, 2006, she commemorated the return of theRevere Bell to theNational Museum of Singapore.[3] She regularly did volunteer work with children in Singapore.
In 2009, Herbold vacated the position afterBarack Obama was appointed as thePresident of the United States.[1] She was succeeded byDavid I. Adelman.[4]
Prior to being accredited to Singapore, Herbold was a member of the President's 21st Century Workforce Council, on the Board of St. Joseph Orphanage of Cincinnati, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Performing Arts Center Eastside in Bellevue, Washington.
Herbold and her husband have supported cancer research. They gave a US$1.5 million gift to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to establish the Herbold Computational Biology Program.[5]
Herbold has worked with Long Live the Kings, a non-profit organization dedicated to the restoration of wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest.
Herbold was the first recipient of the annual Scholar of Life Award of St. Joseph Orphanage and was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans in April, 2014.
Herbold met and married her husband, Robert J. Herbold, who was her trigonometry instructor.[1] Together they have three children and seven grandchildren.
The National Museum generously loaned the Revere Bell to the American Embassy in January 1997, to showcase the enduring ties between the United States and Singapore and to celebrate the opening of this building. We have been honored to give the Bell a home while the Museum completed its expansion.
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| Preceded by | United States Ambassador to Singapore 2005–2009 | Succeeded by |
