Retired Foreign Service officer and Middleburg resident Candis Cunningham passed away peacefully January 15, 2023, at Stone Springs Hospital in Aldie, VA. She was 73.

Candis served in various positions at USIA and the Department of State including as press attaché at the U.S. embassy in Bogota, Colombia, and press officer at the U.S. Congressional Helsinki Accords Commission, where she founded and edited the CSCE Digest. At State, her assignments included director of the narcotics assistance unit in the embassy in Panama, director of the narcotics affairs unit in the embassy in Peru, and numerous assignments in Washington. In late 2022, Candis came out of retirement and returned to State to work on Alternative Development projects in Afghanistan, including Roots of Peace.

She is survived by her husband, retired senior Foreign Service officer and Middleburg Town Council Member Morris "Bud" Jacobs; daughter Julia and son-in-law Daniel Rossi; daughter Leigh Jacobs and son-in-law Daniel Wilkinson; granddaughter (and light of Candis' life) Paige Evelyn Rossi; and canines Rosie and Cooper.

In Memory of Candis Cunningham

By ROOTS OF PEACE

In Memory of Candis Cunningham