Don Lee Gevirtz (1928–2001) was a non-career appointee who served concurrent appointments as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Tuvalu, Fiji, Nauru and Tonga from 1995 until 1997.[1]
At the time of his nomination, Gevirtz was the chairman and chief executive officer of the Foothill Group Incorporated, Los Angeles financial services firm[2] and was a big contributor to Bill Clinton.[3]
Gevirtz is an honors graduate of the University of Southern California. He and his wife Marilyn endowed the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UCSB.[4]