Suddarth graduated from
Yale University, where he was a member of
Scroll and Key Society, with a
Bachelor of Arts in 1956 and from
New College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (
promoted to a Master of Arts per tradition) in modern history in 1958, studied systems analysis at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master in Music from the University of Maryland in 2012. He served in the
Air National Guard from 1958 to 1961. Suddarth was Deputy
Inspector General of the Department of State from 1991 to 1994 and International Affairs Advisor and Professor at the
Naval War College in
Newport, Rhode Island from 1993 to 1994. He retired from the Foreign Service in June 1995 with the rank of
Career Minister. as on the Board of Advisors of the
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at the
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University. In 2008 Suddarth received his
master's degree in
music from the
University of Maryland, College Park; his
thesis was "French Stewardship of Jazz: The Case of French Musique and French Culture." Suddarth was articulate in Arabic,
French, and
Spanish. He had two children with wife of fifty years, Michele. ==References==