Her father was at the time a U.S. Army officer stationed there as part of President Eisenhower's 1958 Middle East Task Force.

Wells also served as executive assistant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 2011 to 2012, and to Undersecretary for Political Affairs William J. Burns from 2009 to 2011.

She served as an assessor at the foreign service board of examiners in 2013 and was special assistant to the president for Russia and Central Asia in the White House from 2012 to 2013.

Ambassador to Jordan, she was serving as senior adviser in the bureau of Near Eastern affairs at the Department of State.

[4] In January 2016 Wells announced at a press briefing in Amman that the US Congress has approved “an unprecedented” $1.275 billion in assistance to Jordan in its 2016 budget bill.