Roscoe S. Suddarth

Roscoe Seldon "Rocky" Suddarth (August 5, 1935 – June 29, 2013) was an American career diplomat. Suddarth was a Foreign Service Officer and served as United States Ambassador to Jordan from 1987 to 1990. He served as the secretary of the American Academy of Diplomacy until his death.

Career 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.