Michele Jeanne Sison is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service serving as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She has previously served in various other diplomatic posts around the world on behalf of the United States, including ambassador to Haiti. Sison holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador.
Maura Ann Harty was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs from November 21, 2002 to February 29, 2008. She was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She was then the President and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Make a Wish Foundation. In November 2014, Harty was appointed President & CEO of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC).
Delta Phi EpsilonForeign Service Fraternity (ΔΦΕ) is the largest national American professional foreign service fraternity. Founded on January 25, 1920, the fraternity's mission is to promote brotherhood among persons studying or engaged in Foreign Service. Its Alpha chapter went on in the first half of the twentieth century to colonize new chapters at many other universities throughout the country, although most chapters went defunct in the latter half of the century. The fraternity is proud of notable members in a variety of fields. As of 2021, there remained 10 active collegiate chapters, half of which were created in 2016-2018.
Tracey Ann Jacobson is an American diplomat and a former United States Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kosovo. She served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from January 2017 through October 2017. She retired then returned to active duty in 2021 as the State Department's Director of the Afghanistan Task Force. She attended Johns Hopkins University.
Willard Leon Beaulac was a United States diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, Colombia, Cuba, Chile and Argentina.
Patricia Mary Byrne was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Burma from November 1979 to September 1983, and United States Ambassador to Mali from December 1976 to October 1979.
Catherine M. Russell is an American attorney, political adviser, and director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. She was the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues from May 8, 2013, until January 20, 2017. Before that, she was chief of staff to the Second Lady of the United States, Jill Biden. On December 10, 2021, she was appointed the executive director of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Russell took office as UNICEF head on February 1, 2022.
Mary Ann Peters is an American career diplomat and the current chief executive officer of the Carter Center. A member of the U.S. Department of State for nearly 30 years, Peters served in a variety of postings before becoming a National Security Council staffer (1995-1997) and United States Ambassador to Bangladesh (2000-2003). After leaving the foreign service, Peters became the provost of the United States Naval War College in 2008. She became the CEO of the Carter Center in 2014.
Piper Anne Wind Campbell is an adjunct professor and former American diplomat. She was the 9th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia. From June to December 2018, she was the Chargé d'affaires ad interim at the United States Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. She now teaches at American University's School of International Service.
Frances Elizabeth Willis was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, Norway and Sri Lanka. She was the third woman to enter the U.S. Foreign Service in 1927 and the first woman to make a career of it.
Bernadette M. Meehan is an American diplomat who served as a spokesperson for the United States National Security Council. She has since worked as chief international officer for the Obama Foundation. On July 9, 2021, Meehan was nominated to serve as United States Ambassador to Chile.
Michele Thoren Bond is a retired U.S. diplomat and former Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Deborah Ann McCarthy is an American diplomat and former Ambassador of the United States of America to Lithuania.
Helen Ruth Meagher La Lime is a diplomat, former United States Ambassador to Angola, and United Nations Special Representative in Haiti.
Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat is a US diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Bangladesh who is the nominee of President Joe Biden to serve as Director General of the Foreign Service. She was nominated by President Obama May 2014 and confirmed by the Senate on November 18, 2014. She served as Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau from 2008 to 2011. From January 1, 2019, to April 3, 2020, she was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the Department of State.
Kelly Ann Keiderling-Franz is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay from 2016 to 2019.
Makila James is an American diplomat who has been a career Foreign Service Officer within the U.S. State Department. Beginning in 1988, she has had a series of postings and roles related to the Caribbean and Africa, leading to her being the Director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs from 2009 to 2012. She then served as the United States Ambassador to Swaziland from 2012 to 2016.
James Brendan Foley is a retired American foreign service officer. He served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti from May 27, 2003 to August 14, 2005, and as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia from August 12, 2009 to August 19, 2012. As Ambassador to Haiti, Foley participated in the late-night negotiations between Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide and U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell leading to Aristide's February 29, 2004 resignation and acceptance of a U.S. offer to fly him into exile.
Carol Zelis Perez is a career Foreign Service Officer, currently serving as the Director General of the Foreign Service. Previously, Perez served as the U.S. Ambassador to Chile from October 2016 to January 2019.
Janet E. Garvey is a faculty member at Northeastern University and was a Career Foreign Service Officer who served as the American Ambassador to Cameroon (2007-2010),
