Biography
Ann was a Syracuse psychiatric nurse and peace activist involved with Peace Brigades International. Jailed in 1998 following the School of the Americas protest at Fort Benning.
Photograph source
- From Warriors to Resisters, page 58 — the caption identifies Ann Tiffany as the third person from the left while bearing witness at a Colombian Army post in 2010. Photograph courtesy of Tom Bottolene. The profile image is a crop of that photograph; no AI editing was used.
Birth-year source
- SOA Watch prisoners-of-conscience chronology — identifies Ann Tiffany as 62 among the November 1997 Fort Benning defendants, supporting 1935 as her birth year.
The April 27, 1998 petition by clemency counsel Debra K. Hannula places this defendant among the January 1998 Fort Benning illegal-re-entry convictions before Judge Elliott, carrying six months and a $3,000 fine. Its January 22 trial/sentencing account differs by one day from an earlier January 21 news report, so the new sentencing field uses month precision rather than choosing an unresolved day. The individual biography confirms March 23, 1998 prison entry. The biography describes her public-health and mental-health nursing and volunteer work with AIDS services and international peace groups. These records concern a request for clemency; they do not establish that a pardon or commutation was granted.
Clinton Presidential Library, individual biography PDF page 47; petition pages 27–32.
Upstate Drone Action’s same-day report names Ann Tiffany among six people arrested and taken to jail on September 24, 2019 while standing at Hancock Field’s main gate in Syracuse. Their protest followed a U.S. drone strike that killed Afghan pine-nut workers. The report does not establish the individual charge, jail location, court outcome or release date.
Upstate Drone Action statement reproduced by The Nuclear Resister, September 24, 2019.
Upstate Drone Action names Ann Tiffany among eight people arrested at Hancock Airbase on June 20, 2019. Ed Kinane’s participant account says the group was handcuffed, held at the sheriff’s north station, then taken to the downtown Syracuse Justice Center, booked and placed in jail clothing. In the early evening, public defenders entered not-guilty pleas before a judge identified only as Murphy. All eight faced trespass and disorderly-conduct violations and misdemeanor obstruction of government administration. After returning to the holding cell they were physically released on their own recognizance sometime after 10:30 p.m. that same day. No conviction, sentence or numerical time-served total is established here; the scheduled June 25–26 hearings were prospective.
Upstate Drone Action and Ed Kinane, reproduced by The Nuclear Resister, June 20, 2019.
The September 25, 2017 Upstate Drone Action account individually names Ann Tiffany among seven people arrested at Hancock Air Force Base while delivering an indictment and blocking the entrance with a large dollar-sign prop. The report states that all seven were released within an hour and charged with trespass and disorderly conduct. It announces future October arraignments, without establishing any jail admission, conviction or sentence. No complete day of imprisonment is inferred.
The contemporary roster individually names this participant among 27 people arrested on the White House sidewalk on April 10, 2011 during a die-in calling for closure of the School of the Americas. The report does not specify an individual charge, jail admission, release date or detention duration. Contemporary report.
The sheriff’s roster reproduced with the April 22, 2011 Hancock Field protest report individually named Ann Tiffany among the people arrested outside the base in the anti-drone demonstration. The article reports trespassing and obstruction-of-justice charges. It describes handcuffs, a wait, and boarding a bus intended for Justice Center processing; it does not establish an individual jail-admission or release time.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, report 893.
