Donald Franchot McHenry is a former American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 1979 until January 20,1981.
Charles Anthony Gillespie Jr. was a United States career diplomat who helped to open the first United States Embassy in Grenada. He later served as the United States Ambassador to Colombia and the United States Ambassador to Chile.
Donald Boyd Easum was an American diplomat.
Chester Arthur Crocker is an American diplomat and scholar who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 9,1981,to April 21,1989,in the Reagan administration. Crocker,architect of the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement" towards Southern Africa including apartheid-era South Africa,is credited with setting the terms of Namibian independence.
James Franklin Collins is a former United States Ambassador to Russia. A career Foreign Service Officer in the State Department,he is a Russian specialist.
Nancy Eileen McEldowney is an American academic and diplomat who served as the national security advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris from January 20,2021,to March 21,2022. She was previously a career Foreign Service officer,served as United States ambassador to Bulgaria (2008–2009),and was director of the Foreign Service Institute from February 2013 until June 2017.
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.
Brandon Hambright Grove Jr. was the United States Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic and Zaire (1984–87) and served on the board of directors of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
George Walter Landau was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Paraguay,Chile,and Venezuela.
Alphonse F. La Porta a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service,served as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from December 1997 to November 2000. Subsequently,he served as the Political Advisor to the U.S. Commander-in-Chief of the Regional Headquarters Allied Forces in southern Europe from January 2001 to November 2003.
Sally Angela Shelton-Colby is an American diplomat. She was Ambassador of the United States to Barbados,Grenada and Dominica as well as Minister to St Lucia,and Special Representative to Antigua,St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla,and St. Vincent from 1979 to 1981,under Jimmy Carter.
Ronald Keith McMullen is an American foreign service officer and a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea 2007–10.
Jack Kirkham McFall was an American diplomat.
Thomas Joseph Dodd Jr. is an American diplomat and academic who served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay (1993–1997) and to Costa Rica (1997–2001).
G. Philip Hughes is an American diplomat who served as Ambassador of the United States to Barbados,Dominica,St Lucia,Antigua,St. Vincent,and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1990 to 1993,under George H. W. Bush. He is also an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics,teaching a course on "The Art of Diplomacy".
Edward Paul Brynn,was a career diplomat,historian and educator. He was the American ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Burkina Faso from 1990 to 1993 and to Ghana from 1995 until 1998.
Ronald Dwight Godard is an American retired diplomat who was a career Foreign Service Officer with the grade of Minister Counselor. He was given the temporary rank of Ambassador in July 1998.
Joseph Gerard Sullivan is an American diplomat who was a career minister in the Senior Foreign Service. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2001–2004) and Angola (1998–2001). He was also Principal Officer in Cuba from 1993 to 1996. He was nominated to be Ambassador to Nicaragua but his nomination was not acted upon by the Senate.
Michael Anthony Samuels is a non career appointee American Ambassador to Sierra Leone (1975-1979).
Alan Walter Eastham,Jr was the American Ambassador to the Congo from 2008 until 2010. He was also Ambassador to Malawi from 2005 until 2008 and U.S. Consul General in Bordeaux,France beginning in 1994.
