Elementos de identidade
Nome e localização da entidade custodiadora
Nível de descrição
Coleção
Título
Ambassador Sue McCourt Cobb papers
Data(s)
- 1957-2023 (Produção)
Dimensão
8.76 linear feet (5 record storage cartons, 1 document case, 2 flat oversized archival boxes)
Nome do produtor
História biográfica
Sue M. Cobb (1937- ) is a lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Jamaica from 2001 to 2005, being the first woman to occupy that position. Her engagement with politics started in 1964 when she became engaged in the organization of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Though at the time she was responsible of arranging hotel rooms in the Bay Area for all young Republicans coming from around the country, she was later a decisive support for Jeb Bush’s 1998 campaign for governor of Florida. In addition, she was appointed by President George W. Bush and played a key role in diplomatic relations between the United States and Jamaica during her tenure. She was also Secretary of State of Florida from 2005 to 2007(1). In addition to her years dedicated to public service, she has an experienced background in business. For instance, she was CEO of the Florida Lottery, a partner at Greenberg Traurig, and a multi-year member and three times chair of the Miami Federal Reserve(2).
She obtained her bachelor’s from Stanford University in 1959 and later graduated from Miami Law School. She and her husband, the American businessmen Charles Elvan Cobb, Jr., met in Stanford and got married at the university’s chapel in 1959. They had two children together, Christian McCourt Cobb (1963- ) and Tobin Templeton Cobb (1964- ) and seven grandchildren(3).
The excellence of Cobb’s career in public services was recognized by numerous awards, which included national honors from Jamaica and Iceland. Between 2002 and 2008, she worked in the U.S. Department of State's Leadership and Management School, where she co-chaired mandatory seminars tailored for newly appointed U.S. ambassadors. Today, the US Department of State annually presents The Sue M. Cobb Award to non-career U.S. ambassadors judged as the most exceptional worldwide.
She has authored two books: The Edge of Everest: A Woman Challenges the Mountain, published in 1989, and more recently, The Lady of Silk and Steel: From Everest to Embassies, published in Jamaica in 2020. Both books reflect on yet another of her achievements: that of being one of the few American women to get close to the summit of Mount Everest(4). Born in California, Mrs. Cobb and her husband currently live in Coral Gables.
–Vanessa Rodrigues Barcelos da Silva
Graduate Student Assistant for Manuscripts and Archives Management, Summer 2024
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_M._Cobb
(2) Council of American Ambassadors (https://americanambassadors.org/members/sue-mccourt-cobb)
(3) Source: The Lady of Silk and Steel
(4) Interview with Sue M. Cobb on her adventure towards Mount Everest (https://adst.org/2015/10/the-edge-of-everest/)
Elementos de conteúdo e estrutura
Âmbito e conteúdo
This collection contains photo albums, photographs, calendars, interviews, news clippings, notes, correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, resumes/CVs, contracts and other legal documents, and other archival documents concerning Sue McCourt Cobb’s career as the United States Ambassador to Jamaica (2001-2005) under the George W. Bush administration, as the former Secretary of State of Florida (2005-2007), and her activities afterwards, along with her climb of Mt. Everest and her autobiography. The collection also features materials pertaining to her family members, including her husband Charles E. Cobb Jr., who was the United States Ambassador to Iceland and who held several national and local cabinet positions under the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Sistema de arranjo
This collection has been arranged into the following series:
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Series I. (Boxes 1-2) General files – Contains Sue McCourt Cobb’s correspondence; administrative files; travel itineraries; personal files; Cobb family documents; and American Friends of Jamaica records and reports.
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Series II. (Boxes 3-4) The Lady of Silk and Steel book files – Contains all documents, contracts, drafts, reviews, clippings, research, and correspondence pertaining to Sue McCourt Cobb’s published book The Lady of Silk and Steel.
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Series III. (Boxes 5-8) Photographic materials – Contains photographs of the Cobb family, various trips, notable figures, and events; photo albums; and personalized calendars with images of the Cobb family. Some of the materials are oversized.
Condições de acesso e uso dos elementos
Condições de acesso
The collection is open for research.
Acesso físico
Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami. Please contact asc.library@miami.edu to request materials from this collection.
Acesso técnico
Condiçoes de reprodução
University of Miami does not own copyright. It is incumbent on the user to obtain copyright from the original creator.
Idiomas do material
- inglês
Escrita do material
- latim
Notas ao idioma e script
Instrumentos de descrição
Elementos de aquisição e avaliação
História custodial
Fonte imediata de aquisição
This collection was donated by Ambassador Sue McCourt Cobb, 01-28-22.
Informações de avaliação, seleção e eliminação
Ingressos adicionais
Another accrual was received from Ambassador Sue McCourt Cobb, 06-27-23.
Elementos de materiais relacionados
Existência e localização de originais
Books donated alongside this collection were added to the library catalog (https://library.miami.edu/):
- The lady of silk and steel : from Everest to embassies by Sue M. Cobb with Laura Tanna, 2020 - access here
- The edge of Everest : a woman challenges the mountain by Sue M. Cobb, 1989 - access here
Existência e localização de cópias
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Fontes utilizadas
Nota do arquivista
Finding aid originally created by Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, 04-22-24. Collection processed by Isabela Valencia, Archives Technician, and Yvette Yurubi, Processing Archivist, summer 2025.
Pontos de acesso
Pontos de acesso - Assuntos
Pontos de acesso - Nomes
- Cobb, Sue McCourt (Assunto)
- Cobb, Charles E. (Assunto)
- American Friends of Jamaica (Assunto)