January 10, 1983
The President today announced his intention to nominate Malcolm R. Barnebey, of Texas, a
career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, as Ambassador to
Belize. He would be the first accredited American Ambassador to Belize.
Mr. Barnebey served in the United States Army in 1946. He was a teaching assistant at North
Texas State University in 1949 - 1950, and an instructor at Weatherford College in 1950 -
1952.
He entered the Foreign Service in 1952 as political officer in Vienna and was economic officer in
La Paz in 1955 - 1957. In 1957 - 1958 he attended advanced economic studies at the University
of California at Berkeley. He was foreign affairs officer in the Department in 1958 - 1961. He was
deputy principal officer in Guayaquil (1961 - 1963) and program officer in Quito on detail at the
Agency for International Development (1963 - 1964). In 1964 - 1967 he was Deputy Director,
then Director of the Office of Ecuadorean-Peruvian Affairs in the Department. He was Deputy
Chief of Mission in Managua (1967 - 1970) and in La Paz (1970 - 1972). He attended the
executive seminar in national and international affairs at the Foreign Service Institute in 1972 -
1973. In 1973 - 1976 he was Deputy Chief of Mission in Lima. In the Department he was Deputy
Director of the National Security Council Interdepartmental Groups and Director of Policy and
Plans (1976 - 1977), and Director of Andean Affairs (1977 - 1980). Since 1980 he has been
principal officer, then charge d'affaires, in Belize City.
He graduated from North Texas State University (B.A., 1949; M.A., 1951). His foreign
languages are Spanish and German. He was born November 8, 1927, in Omaha, Nebr.