Penne Percy Korth

Penne Percy Korth
Peacock in 2016
United States Ambassador to Mauritius
In office
December 6, 1989 – November 19, 1992
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Preceded byRonald D. Palmer
Succeeded byLeslie M. Alexander
Personal details
Born
Penne Percy

(1942-11-03) November 3, 1942 (age 82)
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouses
Fritz-Alan Korth
(divorced)
(m. 2002; died 2021)
ChildrenThree
ProfessionDiplomat

Penne Percy Korth Peacock (born November 3, 1942) is an American diplomat. She graduated from the University of Texas in 1964 with a B.A.[1]

She is a commissioner of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Nominated in 1997, Korth Peacock previously served as Ambassador to Mauritius from 1989 to 1992.[2] In 1993, Korth Peacock co-founded Firestone and Korth Ltd., a corporate consulting and events management firm in Washington, D.C.

Korth Peacock currently serves on the Boards of Chevy Chase Bank, the Council of American Ambassadors, Meridian International Center, the Van Cliburn Foundation, the Marjorie Merriweather Post Foundation of DC, and the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. She is also Vice Chairman of the Washington Round Table of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

  1. ^ "Penne Percy Korth". Notable Names Database (NNDB). Retrieved November 19, 2012.
  2. ^ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project Women Ambassadors Series AMBASSADOR PENNE PERCY KORTH" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 19 May 1993. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.