John Marshall Evans "Honesty in diplomacy"

John Marshall Evans was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 25, 2004
and was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia on August 11, 2004
where he served until May 24, 2006. A native of Williamsburg, Virginia,
Evans earned a BA in Russian history at Yale University and pursued
doctoral studies at Columbia University before joining the U.S. Foreign
Service.
In the first part of his career, he served in Tehran, Prague, and Moscow as
well as serving at the Executive Secretariat and Office of the Secretary of
State, the U.S. Mission to NATO, and as Deputy Director of the Soviet Desk.
His role in coordinating the American response to the Armenian earthquake
of 1988 earned him a medal and statement of appreciation from the
Armenian government of that time.
On his return to Washington in 1999, Evans assumed direction of the State
Department's Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia, winning a
Meritorious Honor Award and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director's
Exceptional Performance Award.

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