Unable to set Asignee on Task

[bostonareahuman]

Bug summary

issue_dict = {
      	'project': 'RS',
    	'summary': mysummary,
    	'description': dd,
    	'issuetype': type,
     	'labels':['111','222'],
		'assignee':{'name':'NAME OF USER'}
       }
  
		new_issue = jac.create_issue(fields=issue_dict)

Issue is created however there is no assignee is given..no errors from what I can see are thrown....

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Jira Instance type

Jira Cloud (Hosted by Atlassian)

Jira instance version

No response

jira-python version

3.2.0

Python Interpreter version

3.6.8

Which operating systems have you used?

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Reproduction steps

Run the above code in the description

Stack trace

N/A

Expected behaviour

that a new task be created with

Additional Context

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chardet 4.0.0
cryptography 3.3.1
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idna 2.10
importlib-metadata 4.8.3
jeepney 0.7.1
jira 3.2.0
keyring 23.4.1
oauthlib 3.1.0
pbr 5.5.1
pip 21.3.1
pycparser 2.20
PyJWT 2.0.0
requests 2.25.1
requests-oauthlib 1.3.0
requests-toolbelt 0.9.1
SecretStorage 3.3.3
setuptools 59.6.0
six 1.15.0
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Unidecode 1.1.2
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zipp 3.6.0