Colleen Bell owner of a Modeling and Talent Agency, producer for a soap opera production company Bell-Phillip Television Prods, executive producer and head writer for “The Bold and the Beautiful,” has been nominated to the post of US ambassador in Hungary by American president Barack Obama on the 7th of November 2013.
The Hungarian news agency highlights that she is is Vice Chair of the Children's Institute Inc. , which is a nonprofit organization specializing in the treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect. and that she serves also at the Rape Treatment Center at UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica.She is not the only top fundraiser of Obama campaign to be named to an ambassadorship -writes the Variety - John Emerson, who was former president of Capital Group Private Client Services, is now the US ambassador in Germany, James Costos, a former HBO executive, in Spain, a political consultant Noah Mamet has been also nominated to be US ambassador to Argentina.
She is not the first American woman ambassador to Hungary . The former ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis has just left in july. Between 2006 and 2009 April H. Foley filled this post. And Nancy Goodman Brinker was the very first woman US ambassadors to Hungary.
sources: MTI Hungarian news agence, Variety