Biography pamela willeford

American diplomat

Pamela Pitzer Willeford (born March 3, 1950) is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein between 2003 and 2006.

She is also notable as being the sole eyewitness of the 2006 hunting incident where then-United States Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot attorney Harry Whittington in the face and chest.^[1][2]

Biography

Willeford grew up in Breckenridge, Texas and attended The Hockaday School in Dallas.

She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in English and Spanish. She became a public and private school teacher in Dallas, starting around the early 1970s.

Biography pamela willeford

During the 1980s, she was a trustee of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin; she worked prominently in the expansion of the school. On the Texas State Preservation Board, she has been Director of Development and coordinated its Texas Capitol Rededication project.

She began serving on