Helen M. La Lime
J9
Amb Helen M. La Lime

Ambassador Helen M. La Lime
Director, Outreach
U.S. Africa Command

Helen La Lime assumed the role of Director of J9 (Outreach), U.S. Africa Command in September 2011.

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State with the rank of Minister Counselor, Ambassador La Lime was Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’ Affaires in South Africa, one of the Africa Bureau’s largest missions, from 2009 to 2011. She also has served as Consul General in Cape Town (2006-2008), U.S. Ambassador to Mozambique (2003-2006), Deputy Chief of Mission of U.S. Embassy Rabat (2001-2003), and Director of the Office of Central African Affairs (2000-2001).

Previous assignments include a tour as Deputy Chief of Mission of our Embassy in N’djamena, Chad (1996-1999), a year at the National War College (1995-1996), an assignment in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs in the Department of State (1993-1995), and service as Consul General in Zurich, Switzerland (1993). She has also held a range of consular and administrative positions at U.S. Missions in Warsaw, Bern and Stuttgart.

Ambassador La Lime joined the Foreign Service in 1980. She is a graduate of Georgetown University (BS) and the National Defense University (MS) and is the recipient of multiple Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor Awards from the Department of State. She speaks French, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Polish.


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