 She was previously a lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley.Reed was deputy chief of mission in Apia, Samoa, from 1999 to 2002, and then in Conakry, Guinea from 2003 to 2005.From 2005 to 2008 she was consul general and deputy U.S. observer to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.