Bill Boyle:
CLASS OF 1977
Green Mountain High SchoolClass of 1977
Lakewood, CO
Stanford UniversityClass of 1991
Stanford, CA
University of DenverClass of 1981
Denver, CO
University of Denver - Lamont School of MusicClass of 1981
Denver, CO
Mount Washington Elementary SchoolClass of 1970
Cincinnati, OH
Bill's Story
I've had quite a peripatetic career that was definitely not what I had planned in high school. However, I wouldn't change a thing because I love how my life has turned out.
I originally got a degree in voice performance from the University of Denver and was a professional singer for a few years (including the German production of the musical "Cats"). I also spent four years in the U.S. Army as a German linguist. I then graduated from Stanford Law School in 1991 and practiced international business law for eight years (in New York and Frankfurt, Germany). I loved law school, but the practice of law....not so much. However, I suppose I can't complain, because I met my wonderful husband Patrick while working for a U.S. law firm in Frankfurt.
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ssion when I joined the U.S. Department of State as a career diplomat in 1999. After serving at U.S. Embassies in the Philippines, Denmark, Hong Kong, Pakistan, Singapore, India, Sweden, Afghanistan and Australia, I retired in 2019 to follow Patrick to his dream job as a marketing professor at the Australian National University in Canberra. (That seemed only fair after he followed me around the world for 20 years.) We are now permanent residents of Australia.
In 2021 I became a "Re-Employed Annuitant" with the State Department, which means I fill staffing gaps at overseas embassies on a temporary basis. As of this writing in July 2021, I'm doing a five-month gig as Acting Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan. It keeps me off the streets.
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