Bill Text: GA SR634 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Merten, Ambassador Kenneth H.; recognize

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-04-14 - Senate Read and Adopted [SR634 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-SR634-Enrolled.html

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11 LC 94 5198

Senate Resolution 634

By: Senator James of the 35th

A RESOLUTION

Recognizing and commending Ambassador Kenneth H. Merten; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, Ambassador Kenneth H. Merten has defined leadership and compassion through his service to the nation of Haiti following the devastating earthquake the nation suffered in 2010; and

WHEREAS, Ambassador Merten is a career Foreign Service Officer who joined the Foreign Service in 1987 and has served two previous diplomatic assignments in Haiti; and

WHEREAS, he has served as Deputy Executive Secretary to United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and to United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; and

WHEREAS, Ambassador Merten's overseas assignments include the United States Embassies in Port-au-Prince, Paris, and Bonn and the United States Mission to the European Union in Brussels; and

WHEREAS, he earned a bachelor's degree from Miami University in Ohio and a master's degree from American University and has studied at the Université d'Aix-Marseille in France and Karl Franzens Universität in Austria; and

WHEREAS, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, Ambassador Merten considers Hudson, Ohio, home, is united in love and marriage to Susan Greenman Merten, and is blessed with two remarkable children; and

WHEREAS, it is abundantly fitting and proper that the extraordinary accomplishments of this distinguished gentleman be appropriately recognized.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the members of this body commend Ambassador Kenneth H. Merten for his dedicated diplomatic service.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to Ambassador Kenneth H. Merten.