Michele Jeanne Sison is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service who had served 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.
Denise Campbell Bauer is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to France and Monaco from 2022 to 2025. Bauer served as Ambassador of the United States to Belgium from 2013 to 2017. After being nominated by President Barack Obama,she was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on August 2,2013;she was sworn in the following August 7. She left office on January 20,2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the executive director of Women for Biden.
Tracey Ann Jacobson is an American diplomat and a former United States ambassador to Turkmenistan,Tajikistan,Kosovo and Ethiopia. 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,and then as Chargéd’Affaires,ad interim,at the Embassy in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. In January 2024,she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the United States ambassador to Iraq.
Herro Kader Mustafa Garg is a Kurdish-American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Egypt since November 2023. She served as the United States ambassador to Bulgaria from October 2019 to March 2023.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden from 2021 to 2025. 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 business strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington,D.C.
Randy William Berry is an American diplomat who had served the United States ambassador to Namibia. He has previously served as the United States ambassador to Nepal and the first U.S. special envoy for the human rights of LGBTI persons.
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.
Alaina B. Teplitz is an American diplomat who had served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives from 2018 to 2021 and U.S. Ambassador to Nepal from 2015 to 2018. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Career Minister,she joined the State Department in 1991 and is the recipient of numerous Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards.
Lisa J. Peterson is an American diplomat who has served United States Ambassador to Burundi since June 27,2024. She had served United States Ambassador to Eswatini 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.
Maria Elena Brewer is an American diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Lesotho from 2022 to 2024. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 2017 to 2021.
David Dale Reimer is an American diplomat and member of the Senior Foreign Service. He had served as the United States ambassador to Sierra Leone from 2021 to 2023. He previously served concurrently as the United States ambassador to Mauritius and United States ambassador to Seychelles from 2018 to 2021. He has also served as Chargéd'affaires ad interim to Burundi and Chargéd'Affaires ad interim to Mauritania.
Lisa S. Dougherty Kenna is an American diplomat who has served Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State since January 2025. She had served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research from September 11,2023 to January 20,2025. She had served as the United States Ambassador to Peru from March 2021 to September 2023. She served as Acting Secretary of State for only a day,as Senator Marco Rubio was confirmed by the Senate on the day of her appointment,and was later sworn in on January 21,2025.
Lynne Marie Tracy is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Russia,serving since January 2023. She formerly served as the United States ambassador to Armenia from 2019 to 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.
Julie D. Fisher is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Cyprus since February 2023.
Dorothy Camille Shea is an American career diplomat who serves as the United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations since 2024. She previously had served as the United States Ambassador to Lebanon from 2020 to 2023. On December 7,2022,she received the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award for sustained extraordinary accomplishment. On January 3,2023,President Biden announced his intention to nominate her as Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations,with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,and Deputy Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations as well as Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Cynthia Kierscht is an official at the United States Department of State serving as the United States ambassador to Djibouti since 2024. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Mauritania from 2021 to 2024.
Yael Lempert is an American diplomat served as the United States ambassador to Jordan from September 2023 to January 2025. Lempert is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,having served in various roles including Senior Director for the Levant,Israel,and Egypt at the National Security Council,and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in London. In 2023,she was nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate to be the ambassador to Jordan.
Kathleen Ann Kavalec is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Romania since February 2023. She is a former nominee to be the United States ambassador to Albania under President Donald Trump.
