She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia, and Special Representative to Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981, under Jimmy Carter.
[1][2][3][4] Sally Shelton-Colby was born on 29 August 1944 in San Antonio, Texas.
[1][4][8] She worked as legislative assistant to Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen during his 1976-onwards mandate.
She is currently a board member of the Pan American Health and Education Foundation and serves as Director of the La Pietra Coalition at Vital Voices.
[7] Shelton-Colby stated he was employed by President of Mexico Adolfo López Mateos and was a part of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
[3][16] In 2011, she disavowed The Man Nobody Knew, a documentary directed and narrated by her stepson Carl Colby.