Diplomatic career
Powers entered the foreign service in 1978 and her early diplomatic career includes tours in Jordan,Russia,and Poland. In Washington,D.C.,Ms. Powers served as Senior Post Management Officer for the Bureau of Near East Asia and South Asia,with oversight responsibility for Afghanistan,Pakistan,Bangladesh,and the Persian Gulf countries and as Deputy Director of the Office of Travel Support in the Bureau of Administration.
In 2004,Powers was posted in Colombia as the Director of the Narcotics Affairs Section responsible for the Counter-Narcotics program known as Plan Colombia. From 2005 until June 2007,she was Deputy Chief of Mission of the U. S. Embassy in Lima,Peru. From 2007 to 2009,Powers was Director of the Office of Provincial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad,Iraq.
In June 2010,Powers was nominated by President Barack Obama to be United States Ambassador to Panama with the rank of Minister-Counselor,and she was confirmed by the Senate on August 8,2010. [1]
In December 2011,when Jonathan D. Farrar's nomination to be US Ambassador to Nicaragua was stalled in the Senate,the President nominated Powers to be Ambassador in Managua and nominated Farrar to the post in Panama City. [2] On March 30,2012,Powers was confirmed as US Ambassador to Nicaragua. [3]
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