Background
Deming, a great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born in 1941 to father Olcott Deming, the first United States. ambassador to Uganda, and mother Louis Macpherson on October 11, 1941, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Deming, a great-great-grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born in 1941 to father Olcott Deming, the first United States. ambassador to Uganda, and mother Louis Macpherson on October 11, 1941, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Bachelor, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, 1964. Master of Arts, Stanford University, California, 1981. Master of Arts in National Security, National War College, Washington, District of Columbia, 1986.
He was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States to Japan from 1993 to 1996 and Ambassador of the United States to Tunisia from 2011 to 2013. Foreign Service Deming joined the State Department in 1966 as a political officer in the United States Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia. He spent much of his career dealing with Japanese affairs, having served in Japan as Charge d"Affaires, ad interim, from December 1996 to September 1997 and as Deputy Chief of Mission under Ambassador Walter Mondale from October 1993 to December 1996.
From September 1991 to August 1993, he was Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs in Washington, District of Columbia. He served as Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the American Embassy in Tokyo from August 1987 to July 1991.
From 1985 to 1986, he was detailed to the National War College in Washington, District of Columbia.
Deming is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he teaches in the Japan Studies department.
He is chairman emeritus of the Japan America Society of Washington, District of Columbia and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Foreign Service Association, and the Stanford University Alumni Association.
Married Kristen Deming. Children: Justine Rodriguez, Katherine Brodie, Jennifer Burnham.