Education
University of California, Berkeley. University of Arkansas.
University of California, Berkeley. University of Arkansas.
Prior to appointment at the Whitehead School, Menzies served as the 16th president of Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, from September 2002 to August 2006. He resigned on August 5, 2006 in order to return to work in international relations. Menzies was instrumental in attracting more than 300 international students to Graceland University, many from the Balkan states.
In January 2006, Menzies traveled to Kosovo to consult on final independence talks taking place in Vienna.
Prior to joining Graceland University as President, he was Chief of Mission at the United States. Office in Kosovo and served as the United States Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina from January 7 through December 15, 1996. Menzies served in United States. Foreign Service posts in Hungary, East Germany, and Bulgaria.
He was assigned to the United States. Mission to the United Nations in New York, and to the office of the Coordinator for the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) program in Washington. From 1997 to 1999, Ambassador Menzies was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace as leader of the Balkan working group.
In 2014 he was awarded The Presidential Medal, the highest award from the nation of Kosova.
Menzies" previously served as assistant to the dean of the graduate division at the University of California, Santa Barbara. While assigned in Sofia in 1991, he also founded the American University in Bulgaria. The ambassador attended Graceland University before earning his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
He subsequently received a Doctor of Philosophy in German from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ambassador Menzies is divorced with three daughters, Lauren, Alexandra, and Morgan.