Carl Edward Dillery

Carl Edward Dillery was the U.S. ambassador to Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu and Kiribati and chair of the American Foreign Service Association’s Scholarship Committee for 15 years and retiree vice president from 1991 to 1993.
Dillery was born in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from Seattle Pacific College in 1953 with a bachelor's degree in history and earn a master's of science degree in the administration of national security from The George Washington University. After Seattle Pacific, he worked as an insurance examiner before joining the Foreign Service in 1955.