Ronald L. Schlicher

Ronald Lewis Schlicher was a US diplomat.
He joined the State Department in 1982 as a diplomat and career foreign service officer with the rank of minister-counselor in the Department of State. He served as the deputy chief of mission in Lebanon 1994–96 and United States consul-general in Jerusalem from 2000 to November 2002. He also served as ambassador to Cyprus from 2005 to 2008. On September 2, 2008, he assumed the position of principal deputy assistant coordinator for counterterrorism.

Personal

Schlicher was born in Sylacauga, Alabama, and grew up in Chattanooga. He was an alumnus of Red Bank High School and attended the University of Tennessee and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and JD from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1981.
Schlicher was fluent in French and Arabic.
After his diplomatic career ended he settled down in Brentwood, Tennessee, where he died in 2019.