Penne Percy Korth

Penne Percy Korth
Peacock in 2016
United States Ambassador to Mauritius
In office
December 6, 1989  November 19, 1992
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Preceded byRonald D. Palmer
Succeeded byLeslie M. Alexander
Personal details
Born
Penne Percy

(1942-11-03) November 3, 1942
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Spouses
Fritz-Alan Korth
(divorced)
    (m. 2002; died 2021)
    ChildrenThree
    ProfessionDiplomat

    Penne Percy Korth Peacock (born November 3, 1942) is an American diplomat. She graduated from the University of Texas in 1964 with a B.A.

    She is a commissioner of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Nominated in 1997, Korth Peacock previously served as Ambassador to Mauritius from 1989 to 1992. In 1993, Korth Peacock co-founded Firestone and Korth Ltd., a corporate consulting and events management firm in Washington, D.C.

    Korth Peacock currently serves on the Boards of Chevy Chase Bank, the Council of American Ambassadors, Meridian International Center, the Van Cliburn Foundation, the Marjorie Merriweather Post Foundation of DC, and the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. She is also Vice Chairman of the Washington Round Table of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).