Karen Parfitt Hughes is the global vice chair of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. She served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and as a counsellor to President George W. Bush.
Anne Woods Patterson is an American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. She served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Egypt until 2013 and as United States Ambassador to Pakistan from July 2007 to October 2010.
Jendayi Elizabeth Frazer is the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,heading the Bureau of African Affairs. She was a Distinguished Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College and Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
Prudence Bushnell is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Kenya and as United States Ambassador to Guatemala.
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.
Kristie Anne Kenney is a former senior U.S. diplomat who served as the 32nd Counselor of the United States Department of State from 2016 to 2017. She is a recipient of the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award and held the nation's highest diplomatic rank of Career Ambassador in the United States Foreign Service. She served as the Department of State Transition Coordinator for the 2016-17 Transition.
Sue Ellen Wooldridge is an American attorney and a former politically appointed U.S. government employee. She was formerly the United States Assistant Attorney General in charge of environment and natural resources,a division of the United States Department of Justice. As such,she was the U.S.'s top environmental prosecutor. She resigned from this post on January 8,2007.
Philip Thomas Reeker is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer with the Department of State who currently serves as the Chargéd'affaires of the United States mission to the United Kingdom. He was previously Acting Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs,where he oversaw a portfolio of 50 countries,before serving at U.S. European Command (EUCOM) in Stuttgart,Germany,and Foreign Policy Advisor Program (POLAD) from 2017 to May 31,2019. Reeker was also U.S. Consul General in Milan,Italy from September 5,2014,Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2011 through 2013,and as the ambassador to Macedonia from 2008 to 2011.
Linda J. Bilmes is the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University. She is a full-time faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School where she teaches public policy,budgeting and public finance. She served as Assistant Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the US Department of Commerce during the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Delores Maria Etter is a former United States Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Science and Technology from 1998 to 2001 and former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for research,science,and technology from 2005 to 2007.
Barbara Mae Watson was a United States diplomat who was the first black person and the first woman to serve as an Assistant Secretary of State.
Karen Ruth Keesling was the United States Assistant Secretary of the Air Force from 1988 to 1989.
Karen Kohanowich is a retired U.S. Naval officer and ocean research and technology program manager for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). She was NOAA's Acting Director of the National Undersea Research Program (NURP) from 2006–2009,and served in various roles at OER,including Acting Deputy and Undersea Technology director,until retiring in 2018. In July 2006,she became an aquanaut on the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 10 crew.
Roberta S. Jacobson is an American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to Mexico from June 2016 to May 2018. She previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from March 30,2012,to May 5,2016. The United States Senate approved her nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico on April 28,2016. In March 2018,Jacobson announced her resignation effective May 5. Foreign Policy reported on January 18,2021 that Jacobson would be in charge of Mexico–United States border affairs at the National Security Council under President Joe Biden.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden. She served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2013 to 2017. Thomas-Greenfield then worked in the private sector as a senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington,D.C.
Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall is an American government official who serves as the 11th Assistant to the President for Homeland Security for U.S. President Joe Biden.
Karen Erika Donfried is an American foreign policy expert who is currently serving as the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. She previously served as president of the German Marshall Fund from April 2014 to September 2021.
Mabel Murphy Smythe-Haith was an American diplomat who served as Ambassador for the United States to Cameroon and later Equatorial Guinea,as well as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
Jennifer Williams is an American United States Department of State official who has served as a special advisor to U.S. vice president Mike Pence on European and Russian affairs. Williams testified under subpoena,in the impeachment hearings of Donald Trump,in closed-door hearings before the House intelligence,Oversight,and Foreign Affairs committees on November 9,2019. She gave public testimony to the House of Representatives ten days later.
