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    Notable Carleton Alumni in Government
    (Note: This is by no means an all-inclusive list; it is simply a representative sampling)
  • Michael Armacost ’58, President, The Brookings Institution; former U.S. Ambassador to the Phillipines and Japan, and Undersecretary of State
  • Arnold Donald ’76, Member, President's Export Council, Department of Commerce
  • Thomas Freedman ’85, Senior Advisor to President Clinton
  • Hiroshi Fukuda ’61, Supreme Court Justice, Japan
  • Susan Golding ’66, Mayor, City of San Diego
  • Carlos Gonzales ’77, Member, U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission
  • Kathleen Hamann ’93, Vice Consul, U.S. Department of State
  • Rush Holt ’70, U.S. Representative (NJ)
  • Jimmy Kolker ’70, U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso
  • Colin McGinnis ’84, Chief of Staff, Office of U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone (who taught political science at Carleton for 21 years prior to his election to the Senate in 1990)
  • Elizabeth McKune ’70, U.S. Ambassador to Qatar
  • Charles Mohan ’62, Senior Economist, U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Seiichiro Otsuka ’68, Ambassador and Consul General of Japan in New York
  • Lawrence Perlman ’60, Member, White House 21st Century Workforce Commission
  • Ada Posey ’78, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Management and Administration, U.S. Department of Energy; former Director, Office of Administration, Executive Office of the President
  • Elisabeth Steele ’96, former Director of Special Projects, Office of Cabinet Affairs, The White House

    Notable Past Government Visitors to Carleton

  • 1922: Pierce Butler, Supreme Court Justice and 1887 Carleton graduate
  • 1928: Frank Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State
  • 1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Presidential candidate
  • 1954: Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
  • 1956, 1959, 1964: Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator (MN)
  • 1965: Albert Gore, Sr., U.S. Senator (TN)
  • 1972: McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor
  • 1974: George McGovern, U.S. Senator (SD)
  • 1979: Harold Brown, Defense Secretary
  • 1979, 1992: Bella Abzug, U.S. Representative (NY)
  • 1985: Harold Wilson, former British Prime Minister
  • 1986: Harry Blackmun, Supreme Court Justice
  • 1992: Walter Mondale, Ambassador to Japan and former U.S. Vice President
  • 1996: Richard Helms, former CIA Director and Ambassador to Iran
  • 1992, 1996: Ketumile Masire, President of Botswana
  • 2000: Bill Clinton, U.S. President

Maintained by Marla Holt of the News Bureau  
Last Updated: Wednesday, 31-May-2000 16:51:20 CDT