Roger Dwayne Pierce is a United States diplomat and a career foreign service officer with the Department of State. As of 2008, he is serving as the foreign policy advisor with the U.S. Special Operations Command. His previous assignment was the post of Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde. He served in that post 2005–08.
Bernadette Mary Allen is a retired United States foreign service officer and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Niger.
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.
James A. Adkins is an American retired senior military officer and former cabinet-level official who served the adjutant general of Maryland and secretary of the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs.
Helen Ruth Meagher La Lime is a diplomat, former United States Ambassador to Angola, and United Nations Special Representative in Haiti.
Stephanie Sanders Sullivan is an American diplomat and the previous ambassador to Ghana. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central African Affairs and Security Affairs for the Bureau of African Affairs from January 2017 to November 2018. She previously served as United States Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo, having been nominated by President Obama on June 13, 2013, confirmed by the Senate on August 1, 2013, and served through January 20, 2017.
Cynthia Akuetteh is a diplomat and was the United States Ambassador to São Tomé and Príncipe and United States Ambassador to Gabon.
Kelly Colleen Degnan is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, who served as the United States Ambassador to Georgia from 2020 to 2023. Prior to that she served as the Political Advisor to the Commander of United States Naval Forces Europe / United States Naval Forces Africa. Previously, she was the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) to the U.S. Mission to Italy and San Marino in Rome, Italy. In September 2019, she was nominated to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Georgia.
Karen Clark Stanton is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to East Timor. Stanton was nominated by President Barack Obama July 31, 2013 and confirmed by the Senate November 19, 2014.
Jean Elizabeth Manes is an American diplomat who currently serves as the Civilian Deputy and Foreign Policy Advisor to General Laura J. Richardson, Commander of the United States Southern Command. She is the former United States Ambassador to El Salvador. Manes was nominated by President Barack Obama on October 21, 2015, and confirmed by the Senate on December 9, 2015.
Amy Jane Hyatt is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Palau from 2015 to 2020. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in December 2014.
Virginia Evelyn Palmer is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Ghana since 2022. Palmer is the former United States ambassador to Malawi. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate, beginning the assignment in January 2015.
Lisa J. Peterson is an American diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Eswatini. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on September 16, 2015, and confirmed by the Senate on Nov. 19, 2015. She left her post on December 1, 2020. Between January 20 and July 14, 2021, she served in the Biden administration as the Acting Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights in 2021.
Kelly Ann Keiderling-Franz is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Uruguay from 2016 to 2019 and has served as Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova since 2022.
Patricia Alice Mahoney is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to the Central African Republic. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Benin.
Laura Elizabeth Kennedy is a retired United States career diplomat, who has served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
Cynthia Kierscht is an official at the United States Department of State who has served as the United States Ambassador to Mauritania since June 22, 2021. President Biden on January 23, 2023, announced his intent to nominate Kierscht as the next US Ambassador to Djibouti.
Elizabeth Rood is an American diplomat who served as the chargée d'affaires of the U.S. mission to Russia from 2022 to 2023, and is the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Turkmenistan.
Joel Ehrendreich is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Palau since September 2023. He previously served as the director of the Office of Japanese Affairs at the State Department from 2022 to 2023.
