Charles Swindells

Charles Joseph "Butch" Swindells (born 1942)[1] is a former United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.

He was appointed to the position by U.S. President George W. Bush, with the strong support of his home state of Oregon's two U.S.

from Lewis & Clark College in 1964, and served as a trustee there from 1998 to 2001.

[2] He also attended Willamette University College of Law.

[2] In 1968, he and law school roommate Jeffrey Grayson founded Capital Consultants together; Swindells left that company in 1985 (and was not involved in the company's financial scandal of the late 1990s).

Image of Ambassador Swindells, right side profile, from the shoulders up. He's wearing a grey fleece jacket. Behind him, out of focus, are air force personnel and a grey C-141 Starlifter cargo plane.
Ambassador Charles J. (Butch) Swindells in Christchurch, NZ in 2002.