John Herbert Holdridge was an American foreign service officer and diplomat,who was best known for having taken part in,and later recounted,Henry A. Kissinger's secret 1971 initiative to restore United States diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore (1975–1978) and Indonesia (1982–1986).
Edwin Webb Martin was an American diplomat and foreign policy scholar. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Burma from 1971 to 1973.
Hume Alexander Horan was an American diplomat and ambassador to five countries,who has been described as "perhaps the most accomplished Arabic linguist to serve in the U.S. Foreign Service."
William Brockway Edmondson was an American diplomat in the United States Foreign Service,who served as the United States Ambassador to South Africa from 1978-1981.
Thomas David Boyatt is a former diplomat and United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso (1978–80) and Colombia (1980–83). He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He was held captive for six days in a Palestinian hijacking in the 1960s. He graduated from Wyoming High School in 1951. He continues to return to his former high school to speak to students during the Wyoming School Foundation Day.
Walter Leon Cutler is an international consultant and advisor,with a focus on the Middle East,and a former U.S. Ambassador.
Viron Peter Vaky was an American diplomat who was United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (1972–74),Colombia (1974–76),and Venezuela (1976). He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.
Patrick Nickolas Theros is an American diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Qatar from 1995 to 1998.
Larry Miles Dinger was the U.S. chargéd'affaires to Burma from 2008 to August 2011. Since the United States did not accredit a formal United States Ambassador to Burma from 1990 to 2012,the chargéd'affaires was the chief of mission and the most senior official in the embassy.
John Stern Wolf served as a Foreign Service Officer with the Department of State from 1970–2004,including tours as Ambassador to Malaysia,Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation,and Chief Monitor,The Middle East Roadmap for Peace. He retired in July 2014 as President of Eisenhower Fellowships in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
Marshall Green was an American diplomat whose career focused on East Asia. Green was the senior American diplomat in South Korea at the time of the 1960 April Revolution,and was United States Ambassador to Indonesia at the time of the Transition to the New Order. From 1969 to 1973,he was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,and,in this capacity,accompanied President of the United States Richard Nixon during President Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
Jack Kirkham McFall was an American diplomat.
Robert Forbes Woodward was an American diplomat who focused on U.S. relations with Latin America. He served as United States Ambassador to Puerto Rico from 1954 to 1958,Ambassador to Uruguay from 1958 to 1961,and Ambassador to Chile in 1961.
Robert Porter Jackson is a retired American foreign service officer and diplomat. He was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor.
Sung Yong Kim is an American diplomat of Korean descent who has served as the United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy since 2021,and previously from 2014 to 2016. He has also served as the acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from January to June 2021.
Marshall Brement was a career United States Foreign Service officer who served as United States Ambassador to Iceland in 1981–1985 and,after retirement,was a professor at the University of Virginia.
Harriet "Hattie" Coons Babbitt is an attorney and former diplomat,who served as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) from 1993 to 1997,and as Deputy Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from 1997 to 2001. She has practiced law in both Arizona and Washington,D.C. Before commencing the practice of law,she clerked for the then Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court,Jack D.H. Hayes in 1972-1973.
Alan Wood Lukens was an American diplomat who served as the ambassador to People's Republic of the Congo from 1984 to 1987 and held other diplomatic posts throughout Africa. He died in January 2019 at the age of 94.
Maurice Marshall Bernbaum was an American Career Foreign Service Officer who served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ecuador (1960-1965) and Venezuela (1965-1969).
