Carney served as a career Foreign Service Officer for 32 years, with assignments that included Vietnam and Cambodia as well as Lesotho and South Africa before being appointed as ambassador to Sudan and later in Haiti.
卡尼担任职业外交官32年，其任务包括越南和柬埔寨以及莱索托和南非，后任驻苏丹大使，后又任驻海地大使。