Marilyn Ware

Ware died of complications of Alzheimer's disease on December 14, 2017, at a hospital in Denver, Colorado. She was 74.

Ware maintained interest in foreign policy and diplomatic relations. For the 2008 Presidential Convention, she sponsored and hosted a group of over 140 international visitors to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota as part of the International Democrat Union, a working organization of center and center-right parties throughout the world. She was listed by the Union as the party's contact.

Ware was nominated by President George W. Bush in October 2005. After Senate confirmation in December 2005, Ambassador Ware served at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki from March 2006 to March 2008.

In 2002, President Bush appointed Ware to serve on the National Critical Infrastructure Advisory Council, a position that she held until her appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Finland.

In 2002 and 2003, she was named to "Sy Snyder's Power 50," the PoliticsPA list of politically influential individuals in Pennsylvania. She was also named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women"

From 1988-2003, Ware served as chief executive officer (CEO) of American Water Works Company, the largest water-utility holding company in the United States. During her tenure, the company grew from a market capitalization of $1.4 billion in 1988 to $8.3 billion when it was sold to RWE in January 2003.

Ware was awarded an honorary Doctor of Public Services from Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in 1988 and awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA in 2004.

Marilyn Ware (November 4, 1943 – December 14, 2017) was the U.S. Ambassador to Finland from March 2006 to March 2008.