Biography of Barbara Larkin
Senior Advisor, Legislative and Public Affairs
Barbara Larkin is the Senior Advisor for USAID's Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs. She assumed this role in April 2010. Prior to joining USAID's team, she spent four years as the Vice President for Policy and Advocacy at CARE following eight years at the Department of State.
Barbara Larkin joined the Department of State in 1993 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs (Senate) and in July 1996 was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs. She served in this position until 2001. She came to the State Department from Capitol Hill, where she served as Legislative Director and counsel to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Chief Counsel and Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Terry Sanford (D-NC), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Near East and South Asia Affairs; and a Professional Staff Member of the Committee. As a member of the Senate Observer Group to the Central American Peace Negotiations, Ms. Larkin also has substantial experience in Latin American issues.
Between positions on Capitol Hill, Ms. Larkin practiced law in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the firm of Sanford, Adams, McCullough and Beard. She was one of the first women to be made a partner in a major firm in that state. As Chief Counsel to Senator Sanford, Ms. Larkin continued to provide advice on all legal matters, including judicial nominations and issues arising from the Senator's duties as a member and chairman of the Select Committee on Ethics.
A native of Dubuque, Iowa, Ms. Larkin is a graduate of Clarke College and the University of Iowa College of Law.
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