Rozanne L. Ridgway

Overview

Rozanne L. Ridgway born St. Paul, MN August 22, 1935. American career diplomat; first woman State Department Counselor 1980; Assistant Secretary of State 1985-9, lead negotiator at five Reagan-Gorbachev summits, which brought first substantive nuclear weapons reductions, marking end of Cold War.

Quotations

"[T]he United States cannot prosper in a poor world. We cannot prosper in a world enmired in conflict. We cannot prosper in a world in which there is rampant denial of human rights." (Nov. 4, 1994, Vancouver, WA city website; photo nndb.com)